Citation

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA. MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. 1976; 25(6): 42.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, (in public domain), Publisher U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

DOI

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Abstract

Approximately 30 sixth-grade students from an Acadia Parish school developed a gastrointestinal illness shortly after eating lunch on September 8, 1975. The suspected vehicle was orange drink that had been stored in the school's milk
shake machine. Designed only for handling dairy products but modified to dispense carbonated beverages, the machine had a mixing chamber consisting of 60% copper alloy. Subsequent chemical analysis of orange drink before and after carbonization in the mixing chamber established copper contamination.