Letter: Letters: Active ingredient

It may interest Christopher Price and readers of his article (Forum,
30 January) to know that despite the fact that we have no connection with
the IRA, I and probably hundreds of thousands of others, regularly carry
nitroglycerine around with us.

It is in the form of an aerosol spray, the active ingredient being glyceryl
trinitrate – that is, nitroglycerine – intended for medical use to relieve
certain conditions of the respiratory and circulatory systems.

All one needs to be innocently contaminated is to be downwind of somebody
using the spray; all one needs to ‘plant’ evidence is to know that glyceryl
trinitrate is the same as nitroglycerine and how to press an aerosol button.

I would ask you not to print my name and address nor the trade name
of the spray, but I attach the instruction sheet from a canister of the
spray showing it contains 200 doses (of 400 micrograms each) of nitroglycerine.
Incidentally, the sheet is almost certainly contaminated, so wash carefully
before shaking hands with a policeman.

Name and address supplied