Hands off: Victorian books laden with toxic dyes

I regret to inform you that you must stop licking brightly-colored books published in the Victorian era. The dyes are poisonous.

The latest research on these poisonous books used three techniques—including one that hasn't previously been applied to books—to assess dangerous dyes in a university collection and found some volumes may be unsafe to handle.

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