Consolidated Pharmaceuticals (former) | dangerous place / area, closed

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Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2010:
Consolidated Pharmaceutical Group and its owner agreed Monday to pay $250,000 in fines, never again own a business in Maryland and sell its long-dormant Brooklyn Park penicillin-making site as part of a plea to criminal charges stemming from abandoning the plant, where officials said acids and toxic chemicals were leaking.
When the company ceased production in 1999, it "shut the door and just left," said Michelle Barnes, an assistant attorney general.
But the plant still held more than 50,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals, including some that, under certain conditions, could have combined into deadly cyanide gas, she said, adding that "the danger to the community was significant."