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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9551

27 November 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Alarming Commission report on 2006 seizures of chemicals that can be used to make designer drugs

Brussels, 26/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a 2006 report on seizures in the EU of illegal imports of chemicals that can be used to make designer drugs, the European Commission says the scale of the problem is immense. The document estimates that the street value of the seizures of the most commonly intercepted chemicals would be more than €2.5 billion if they were all used to make illegal designer drugs. 2000 litres of benzylmethylcetone (BMK), a chemical used in the chemical and...

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