Poison cabinet
The poison cabinet keeps legally classified poisons under lock and key in pharmacies , hospitals , schools and laboratories . This is a lockable cabinet in which particularly dangerous drugs and poisons are stored.
Colloquially , it is also used to refer to a cupboard in which books or films, but also files or works of art are kept under lock and key, which should not be accessible to everyone for political, moral or other reasons.
Use in pharmacies
Venena (lat. Venenum = poison) were substances which, according to the pharmacopoeia, had to be “stored very carefully” in a special locker. This regulation no longer applies with the current pharmacy regulations. According to the law on hazardous substances , these substances are often classified as "very toxic". Hazardous substances law does not apply to finished medicinal products , but only to substances and preparations with dangerous properties (corrosive, highly flammable, environmentally hazardous). The classification of a substance can change. In the past, caffeinum had to be stored in the poison cupboard with a skull label stuck to it (previously “toxic”, now “harmful to health” ).
Colloquial meaning
In museums , libraries and archives , objects that are sensitive in terms of content or (temporarily) locked ( file lock ) are stored in the poison cabinet (in the case of works with sensitive content also called remota ), not so much to protect these objects, but because the information is not made available to everyone may or should be, for whatever reason; for example many documents, books, objects and works of art from the Nazi era . The terrible girl , Anna Elisabeth Rosmus, found the information for her work as a schoolgirl about the brown times of the city in her hometown of Passau only after the reference to the poison cabinet. It was used in particular as a slang synonym for lock library in the former GDR .
The contents of so-called poison cabinets are constantly being updated and checked, after changes in political circumstances or after the expiry of blocking periods , certain objects are released from the block. For example, the Bavarian State Library in Munich presented a special exhibition from October 2 to December 17, 2002: “The poison cabinet. Remota: The locked away books of the Bavarian State Library “ some objects that were previously withheld from the public in the house there.
On the radio , recordings of breakdowns are also kept in the (virtual) “poison cabinet”. In addition, television broadcasters keep unpublished films and contributions in a (virtual) poison cabinet that may not be shown for content or legal reasons or where there is a ban on making them accessible to the public. For example, six crime scene episodes are blocked from within the broadcaster and are blocked for future broadcasts until further notice.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gift closet , duden.de, accessed on March 11, 2012.
- ↑ Dealing with hazardous substances ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 207 kB), Die PTA in der Apotheke 31 (2002), Issue 1 on PTA-aktuell.de, accessed on March 20, 2012.
- ^ Siegfried Lokatis and Ingrid Sonntag: Secret readers in the GDR. Control and distribution of illegal literature , Ch. Links Verlag 2008, p. 191 online on Google books .
- ^ Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford and David Miller: Karl Popper, a Centenary Assessment: Life and Times, and Values in a World of Facts, Ashgate Publishing Limited, p. 191 online on Google Books .
- ↑ Crime scenes in the poison cabinet: Forbidden fruits , Francois Werner and Dominik Pieper in tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 20, 2012, link repaired on June 3, 2014.