1.52pm: The chemical spilled in a Tauranga dental laboratory this afternoon has been identified as Potassium Cyanide.
Bay of Plenty area manager Murray Binning said a "small quantity of potassium cyanide" was dropped in the dental laboratory on Cameron Rd near 16th Ave.
He understood the person who dropped it had got themselves to hospital for a check up. He said the dental laboratory was in the premises temporarily before they moved in to their new building.
Fire fighters were cleaning up the spill and a decontamination unit was ready to decontaminate the fire fighters and their gear.
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