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The ideal poison for committing a homicide must be: odorless, tasteless, difficult to detect and mimic the symptoms of naturally occurring diseases, finds Anil Aggrawal, professor of Forensic Medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India.
Suicide note reveals taste of cyanide. The case is a tragedy, but a doctor says it solved a long unanswered question - what does the deadly poison cyanide taste like? An Indian man who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste of the fatal toxin, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported on Saturday. Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid, he wrote, according to the paper. It is not clear why the man, identified as MP Prasad, a goldsmith, killed himself, because he died before he completed his suicide note, local police chief K Pramod told the paper.