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The Independent UK
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Engineer caught on camera poisoning co-worker’s drink with cancer-causing metal

New surveillance footage shows a chemical engineer poisoning his co-worker’s water bottle with cadmium, a metal deemed carcinogenic to humans, in an 18-month-long campaign that caused her serious ill health.

David Xu was caught by Rong Yuan after she set up a hidden camera on her desk at Berkeley Engineering and Research in California in 2019 after experiencing unexplained ill-health starting in 2017.

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