of the American Association of Poison Control Centers identify 26 DNP poisoning fatalities between 2013 and 2021 in the US. The Swedish Poisons Information Centre has reported three fatal DNP cases between June 2012 and May 2013. "Forensic analysis of DNP is not routinely performed so the true number of DNP deaths may be higher." DNP may not be detected in post mortem blood samples. In 2003, a vendor of DNP was sentenced to five years in prison for mail fraud, with the FDA's OCI investigators having gathered evidence that the vendor's encapsulation of DNP was neither accurate nor sanitary. One of his customers died and another was hospitalized in a coma for more than 10 days. In 2018, a seller in the United Kingdom was convicted of manslaughter for selling DNP as "fatburner" for human consumption. The conviction was sent to retrial in 2020 by the English Court of Appeal, where the seller was, once again, convicted of gross negligence manslaughter. In 2019, a company selling DNP in the UK was found "guilty of placing an unsafe food product on the market" and fined £100,000. The director of the company was given a suspended prison sentence. A seller in California was sentenced to three years in prison for selling DNP as diet pills. In 2020, a man from North Carolina was sentenced to the maximum sentence of seven years in prison after three of his customers died from DNP poisoning. In 2021 a woman from Texas was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison for selling DNP to consumers. The same year a man from Oregon was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for selling DNP as a weight-loss product. December 2021 a man from UK was sentenced to 28 months in prison for selling DNP as a diet pill for weight loss on the darknet. References Further reading External links General 2,4-dinitrophenol information. CLH Report for 2,4-dinitrophenol – ECHA. Harmonised classification and labelling at EU level of 2,4-dinitrophenol Safety Data Sheet. Alfa Aesar Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals 2,4-Dinitrophenol SDS. August 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019. Toxicological Profile for Dinitrophenols 2019 Withdrawn drugs Antiobesity drugs Dinitrophenols Ionophores Uncoupling agents Rodenticides Explosive chemicals Sweet-smelling chemicals