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• Portuguese cigarettes to be withdrawn over pesticide discovery 

Jump to full article: Channel NewsAsia (sg), 2004-11-20

Intro:

Portuguese public authorities said on Friday they were ordering the withdrawal from public sale of two Portuguese cigarette brands after discovering traces of a banned pesticide containing a cancer risk in some of them.

The inspectorate-general of economic activity, a regulatory body, said it would call for the withdrawal from the market of certain consignments of the SG Ventil and SG Filtro brands after a pesticide with a potential cancer hazard had been detected, Lusa news agency quoted a ministry source as saying.

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