Liquid nitrogen cocktail cocktail prepared with liquid nitrogen while celebrating her birthday at a bar in Lancaster city centre. A medical team diagnosed her condition as perforated stomach, and performed a gastrectomy to save her life. On September 17, 2015, Oscar's Wine Bar and Bistro in Lancaster was fined £100,000 as a result of the incident, as no proper risk assessment had been performed and bar staff had not received adequate warnings of the importance of not drinking the cocktail until all the nitrogen had boiled off. The incident prompted representatives of the British Compressed Gases Association and the Food Standards Agency to
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