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Archive - Aug 2, 2006

Do Disposable Chopsticks Foretell a Toxic Doom?

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 08/02/2006 - 6:39am

For the last few weeks I've seen people searching for "toxic chopsticks" on Nuketown, which I assumed was in regards to some sort of hoax, but since no one ever sent me the text, I couldn't debunk it.

This morning I tried searching Snopes.com and came up with the story "Chopsticks". According to Snopes, the original e-mail claims that disposable chopsticks can cause cancer via bleach left over from their creation. It's based on a post made to Chinese-language message boards, and it's definitely bogus.