WARSAW, Poland, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Customs officials in western
Poland said they seized 32,000 pairs of imported flip flop plastic shoes on
suspicion they included carcinogenic substances.
Beata Downar-Zapolska, a spokeswoman of the customs office in the western Polish
town of Lubusz, on the border with Germany, said a customs laboratory at Wroclaw
established the Chinese-made flip flops contained cancerogenic substances,
Polish Radio reported Wednesday.
Downar-Zapolska said the substance becomes a carcinogen when exposed to heat.
Such substances are banned by the Polish Economic Ministry from being used as
production material.
The boxes containing the flip flops will be shipped out of the European Union
back to China, the radio said.
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