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Poison List
The following estimated lethal doses are from the work of those conversant with both animal testing studies and, in some cases, human autopsy results. These data are not my conversions of animal LD50 values into human equivalents.
| Name | fatal adult human dose in milligrams [route of administration] |
Botulinum toxin A (Clostridium botulinum; bacterium) |
0.001 [oral] |
Saxitoxin (Alexandrium, Gymnodinium, and Pyrodinium algae) |
1 [oral] |
Tetrodotoxin (present in pufferfish, genus Fugu) |
1 [oral] |
Coral snake venom (Micrurus fulvius fulvius) |
5 [bite] |
Gila monster venom (Heloderma suspectum) |
8 [bite] |
VX (nerve gas) O-Ethyl-(S)-[2-diisopropylaminoethyl]- methylphosphonothiolate |
10 [on skin] |
Black mamba venom (Dendroaspis polylepis) |
15 [bite] |
White phosphorus |
15 [oral] |
Trichothecene mycotoxins |
35 [oral, skin] |
Hydrogen cyanide |
50 [inhalation] |
Nicotine (S)-3-(1-Methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)pyridine |
60 [oral] |
Arsenic |
70 [oral] |
Water moccasin venom (Agkistrodon piscivorus) |
100 [bite] |
Soman (nerve gas) Pinacolyl methyl phosphonofluoridate |
350 [on skin] |
Strychnine |
350 [oral] |
Chaconine and Solanine Potato (Solanum tuberosum) glycoalkaloids |
420 [oral] |
Dimethylmercury |
500 [oral] |
Western diamondback rattlesnake venom (Crotalus atrox) |
560 [bite] |
Mercuric chloride |
1000 [oral] |
Thallium sulfate (rodenticide) |
1000 [oral] |
Paraquat (herbicide) 1,1'-Dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridinium |
1400 [oral] |
Sarin (nerve gas) Isopropyl methylphosphanofluoridate |
1700 [on skin] |
Chlordane (pesticide) 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,8-Octachloro- 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7-methanoindane |
2800 [oral] |
Sodium chlorate (herbicide) |
3000 [oral] |
Dieldrin (pesticide) endo, exo-1,4:5,8-Dimethanonaphthalene |
3500 [oral] |
Tabun (nerve gas) Ethyl N,N-dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate |
4000 [on skin] |
Benzene |
7000 [oral] |
Cadmium |
7000 [oral] |
Mustard gas (vesicant) Bis-(2-chloroethyl)sulfide |
7000 [on skin] |
Toxaphene (pesticide) Polychlorinated camphenes |
7000 [oral] |
Caffeine 1,3,7-Trimethylxanthine |
10,000 [oral] |
Chloroform |
15,000 [oral] |
Pyrethrins (pesticide) |
15,000 [oral] |
MCPA (herbicide) 4-Chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid |
31,500 [oral] |
Ethylene glycol |
112,000 [oral] |
Isopropyl alcohol |
220,000 [oral] |
Ethyl alcohol |
386,000 [oral] |
Methoxychlor (pesticide) 2,2-Bis(p-methoxyphenyl)-1,1,1-trichloroethane |
448,000 [oral] |
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