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Food served to inmates at Rikers Island laced with rat poison, lab tests show | 29 April 2015 | Meatloaf served to inmates on Rikers Island tested positive for highly lethal rat poison, according to lab testing. An attorney for 22 inmates suing the city Department of Correction ordered the testing on a sample of meatloaf preserved by her client Reginald Dupree. The substance analyzed by EMSL Analytical in New Jersey contained Brodifacoum, a rodenticide. Joanne Squillace, an attorney for the inmates, filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court alleging inmates suffered nausea, bleeding and vomiting after eating the meatloaf served in March during lockdown in at the Anna M. Kross jail.