18 June 2016 (00:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 29 Khordad 1395/12 Ramadan 1437/14 Jia-Wu 4714

At the Switzerland owned Nestlé Willy Wonka factory in Itasca, Illinois, a chemical spill caused at least 11 employees to be hospitalized, a total of 17 required attention by EMTs.

The chemical is lithium chloride (LiCl), of which five gallons burst from a humidification pipe (initial reports said it spilled from a five galllons drum).  LiCl is used in candy factories to regulate humidity.

LiCl can burn and can affect your central nervous system.  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that ingestion of LiCl will result in “Disorientation,  incoherence and poor memory.”

The Material Safety Data Sheet from ScienceLab states LiCl has “MUTAGENIC EFFECTS: Mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells. Mutagenic for bacteria and/or yeast. TERATOGENIC EFFECTS: Classified POSSIBLE for human. DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY: Classified Reproductive system/toxin/female, Reproductive system/toxin/male [POSSIBLE].”

Now you know why the Umpa-Lumpas  are orange.

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