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You may have seen an advertisement for "Viagra" on tv, radio or in a newspaper or magazine, usually at much lower prices than from your doctor. You may have thought that the price seemed unusually low and the advertising claims seemed exaggerated and wondered why the government was allowing them to get away with it.
In this case, there are scammers making fake Viagra and using
bird droppings, otherwise know as guano, New Zealand customs officers seized a
shipment of fake Viagra and upon analysis, discovered that the main ingredient
was guano - bat and bird droppings. This is according to a scientist,
Dallas Mildenhall, a principal scientist at the New Zealand government-owned GNS
Science research organization, who was quoted in a newspaper (The Press, of
Christchurch, New Zealand) on Saturday.
See this page for the news story.
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