Every year, stories about razor blades in candy apples, hallucinogenic tootsie rolls and poisoned candy begin to surface like zombies crawling out of graves. Some are based on fact, while others are urban legends. Snopes has done some research into this as well. The claim was that “Police have documented cases of people randomly distributing poisoned Halloween candy to children on Halloween”. They concluded this claim was FALSE.
This infographic tells us what is fact, and what is myth, when it comes to tainted Halloween candy.