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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#000099" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/07/calls-ban-toxic-chemicals-fall-deaf-ears-worldwide-280697.html">http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/07/calls-ban-toxic-chemicals-fall-deaf-ears-worldwide-280697.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><font size="6" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;font-weight:bold">Calls to Ban Toxic Chemicals Fall
on Deaf Ears Around the World<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">By
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/user/14788"><font color="black"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Luke Dale-Harris</span></font></a> / October 30, 2014 11:28 AM EDT
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="553" height="323" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CFF9E5.671ACB70" alt="Pesticide"></span></font><font color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">A labourer rides on a tractor which sprays pesticide onto plants at a farm that supplies fresh produce to Wal-Mart
in Narayangaon, about 180 km west of Mumbai September 27, 2012. Vivek Prakash/Reuters<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">When Denis Bibeyran was diagnosed at the age of 47 with bile tract cancer – a rare
form of the disease usually found in men at least 20 years older than him – his sister Marie put it down to bad luck. Around the vineyards of Bordeaux, where they lived and worked, cancer among men his age was common and cancer of the bile tract not particularly
unusual. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">In 2010, less than 18 months later, Marie Bibeyran’s seven-year-old daughter started
puberty. By the end of the year, her breasts had developed to a size normally associated with girls twice her age. Soon after her period started but her physical growth slowed almost to a standstill. Doctors diagnosed a classic case of precocious puberty,
a hormonal disorder that causes early sexual development – unusual in otherwise healthy young girls, but not unheard of.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">By then, Bibeyran had long since given up on luck. She began asking around and found
that, among the usual ailments, a remarkable number of families in the area had similar stories of rare cancers, Parkinson’s disease and hormonal development disorders. At local schools, teachers were reporting an unprecedented rise in learning difficulties
such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Looking for a link, she started researching the pesticides used in the vineyards
and found that, amongst the hundreds routinely sprayed on the grape vines, there was a certain category of chemicals that were causing the scientific community particular concern.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><i><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Referred to collectively as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), they act by tampering
with the hormonal system. Over the past two decades, a flurry of scientific studies from around the world has shown them to cause problems very similar to the kind she was seeing in her brother and her daughter.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">EDCs are everywhere, found in cosmetics, preservatives, medicines and countless household
products such as shampoos and toothpaste, which are used every day by billions of people across the world. Some, such as the pesticide DDT and the “anti-miscarriage” medication DES, were banned years ago, leaving a legacy of health and environmental problems
in their wake. Many others are still in use, though exactly how many no one knows.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Now, for the first time anywhere in the world, the Europe Union (EU) is attempting
to regulate endocrine disrupting chemicals, setting down criteria to define, identify and, where necessary, ban EDCs. Already, this is sending shockwaves through boardrooms across the world because companies selling their goods in Europe will be forced by
law to comply. Everyday goods may be taken off the market; industry could lose billions. The emphasis is on the word “could” because the fightback has already begun. Already a year over deadline, the procedure has finally gone to public consultation, where
it has met with uproar.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“The policy has been hijacked by industry,” says Axel Singhofen, the environment
and health adviser for the Green Party European Free Alliance. “They seem to have forgotten the scientific roots of the problem and are much more concerned with appeasing business interests, whatever the costs to health and wildlife.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">According to Charles Sultan, a French endocrine scientist who has been working on
studies into the effects of chemicals on health for more than two decades: “Development malfunctions and physical malformations in children and cancer, particularly of the reproductive organs, later in life, are the most prevalent issue. But there are more
– we don’t even know about everything yet. The problems can appear decades or even generations after exposure.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Many environmentalists had high hopes that the EU would show more determination.
Responsibility was in the hands of the Directorate General (DG) Environment, the notoriously diligent arm of the European Commission responsible for environmental matters. Building the foundations of its policy was an international team of endocrinologists,
headed by a leading expert in the field, Professor Andreas Kortenkamp. On commission by DG Environment, the scientists were to draw up a review of the existing science on the effects of EDCs on human health and wildlife, and map out policy options accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">When Kortenkamp’s scientific review was published on DG Environment’s website in
early 2012, its demands were clear. The chemicals, the review stated, should be treated with “concern equivalent to carcinogens, mutagens and reproductive toxicants”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The effects on human health they noted were astonishing, with EDCs causing disorders
as diverse as cancer and autism, genital mutation and obesity. On wildlife, it went even further: EDCs were reported to skew the gender ratios of species and there was “good evidence that wildlife populations have been effected, sometimes with widespread effects”.
Levels of exposure were shown largely to be irrelevant, with even minute doses sometimes causing severe effects.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“What we know is that the toxicities of EDCs are extremely dangerous,” says Kortenkamp.
“But there is still a lot we don’t know – we don’t know how every EDC works, whether there can be levels where it is safe, what damage it could cause or when it could cause it. The only safe approach to take is one of precaution.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="594" height="407" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CFF9B5.369672E0" alt="102969600"></span></font><font color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Health Scare: Safe cosmetics activists are putting pressure on large pharmaceutical
companies, such as L'Oreal to stop using toxic chemicals like phthalate and triclosan, in personal care productsFabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">This is the line DG Environment took. By spring 2013, it had drawn up a strategy,
calling for strict precautionary measures which would lead to a ban of any chemical, in any product, shown to be an EDC – at least until the science came forward to show them to be safe. Just before the policy was to be published, a draft was leaked. The industry
immediately began its attack.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">A group of 18 editors of toxicology journals sent an open letter to the Chief Scientific
Advisor of the European Commission, trashing the policy for being “scientifically unfounded” and “defying common sense, well-founded science and risk assessment principles”. A closer inspection of the signees
<a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/eu-conflict" target="_blank">
<font color="black"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">carried out by
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Environmental Health News </span></i></span></font></a>last year showed all but one of them to have past or current ties to regulated industries, representing between them many of the world’s largest chemical manufacturers
and industry groups.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The lead author, Daniel Dietrich, is a former adviser to an industry organisation
that lobbies the EU over EDC regulation called the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals. This organisation lists Syngenta, Bayer, Dow Chemicals and BP among its funders. Other signees have links to Monsanto, GlaxoSmithKline and the
industry funded American Chemistry Council.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“Of course (the science) was going to be attacked,” says Kortenkamp. “As our review
was to be the basis for Europe’s policy, we were out on a limb, an open invitation for industry to attack. They did exactly what you would expect them to do, manufacture doubt to buy themselves time. This is nothing new, the obvious comparison is with the
climate change debate where 99% of the scientists agree and the appearance of controversy is engineered by a minority.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Behind the closed doors of the European commission, a series of documents obtained
by French journalist Stephane Horel show the industry lobbyists going into emergency mode. In June and July, the chemical industry lobby bombarded the European Commission with a stream of emails and position papers, all calling for a thorough reassessment
of DG Environments’ strategy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">At the upper reaches of the European Commission, private meetings were held on an
almost weekly basis between industry representatives and commissioners, according to the documents. National governments got on board, with the UK and Germany issuing a joint position paper calling for the inclusion of “potency considerations”, a loophole
that Kortenkamp says would compel the EU to “cream off from the top the worst offenders and leave the rest of endocrine disruptors totally unregulated.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Meanwhile, the US government persistently pointed out the problems EDC regulation
would cause to EU–US trade relations. Then, in July 2013, months before the deadline for completing the policy, on orders from the top of the European Commission, the regulation process was frozen and an impact assessment looking at the socio-economic effects
of regulations was ordered, delaying the policy until 2015 at the earliest. <o:p>
</o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“We were ready with our strategy, but then we were blocked at every possible point.
We could have been blocked, right from the top of the European Commission,” a senior source from DG Environment says. With the deadline passed, Sweden has initiated legal action against the EU for its delays, claiming “the Commission stops and stalls the work
to phase out endocrine disruptors. It’s extremely serious”. France, Denmark and the Netherlands support Sweden.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">It’s not surprising that pesticides and cosmetics industries are anxious. According
to a spokesperson for the European Crop Protection Association, 40% of the market share of pesticides could potentially be lost to the regulations, meaning a loss of €8-9bn in just one sector.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">L’Oreal is one of many cosmetics companies who have already come under fire over
potential endocrine disruptors used in their hair products. Named on its list of ingredients are chemicals such as phthalates, which has already been banned in other products and is high on the list of those to be regulated in the strategy. The company has
only recently refrained from using another dangerous chemical, triclosan. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">L’Oreal, however, remains defiant. In response to questions, the company referred
Newsweek to its website where it says: “Certain substances present in cosmetic products . . . have been the target of repeated attacks. However, no valid scientific study has yet confirmed that [these chemicals] give rise to adverse effects on human health.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">In 2009, less than a year after his diagnosis, Denis Bibeyran lost his fight with
cancer. Two years later, armed with scientific evidence linking his death to the pesticides he had been exposed to for years while working at the vineyards, his sister Marie took the state support service for agricultural workers to court.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“I wanted to get recognition that my brother’s death was an occupational hazard,
not a coincidence,” she says. “Nothing is paid in insurance to the people who fall ill after working on vineyards, as the state refuse to recognise in any way that pesticides and endocrine disrupting chemicals are linked to health.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Three years on, the case has hardly moved in the judicial process, but, across France,
other similar actions have started appearing in courts with increasing regularity. “It gives me hope to see others fighting this too,” Bibeyran says, “but what we’re up against is huge. The French government has corporate giants like Monsanto and Bayer weighing
on them and if they admitted that their products caused cancer, even in one case, everything would begin to fall apart for these companies.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Industry lobbyists have their eyes on a bigger picture. The EU and US are currently
negotiating a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). If passed, it would align technical regulations and approval procedures on either side of the Atlantic – freeing up the passage of goods between the EU and US from regulatory barriers and
potentially boosting economies on both sides by hundreds of billions of euros. In practice, however, this would mean adjusting many European regulations to the lower standards imposed by the US.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“If TTIP is passed along the lines that have been released so far, the EDC regulations
would be postponed even further or completely derailed,” says David Azoulay, an attorney at the Centre for International Environmental Law.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“The TTIP would alter not just this case, but the fundamental mechanisms through
which Europe regulates. The precautionary approach, which allows Europe to remove potentially dangerous products from the market until they are proved safe, could well be made completely toothless so as not to damage industry profits.”
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">This would put Europe in a similar position to the US where, even once a chemical
has been proven to be dangerous, it is near impossible for the government to take it off the market.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">“The stakes are particularly high on chemicals,” says Azoulay. “The chemical industry
is very strong and the regulatory discrepancies between Europe and the US could cost it billions. And, all the time, society is watching them very carefully and with growing fear.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">If people are scared, they’re not showing it. Since the European public consultation
on EDCs opened last month, only five people have logged in to give their opinion.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Marie Bibeyran knows she is fighting apathy but she also knows, “it is not us they
are listening to . . . the EU has let its mind be made up by big business.”</span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Deborah L. DeBiasi</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><b><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Email: Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</span></font></b><b><i><font size="2" color="red"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><br>
</span></font></i></b><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">WEB site address:
<a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/">www.deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Virginia Department of Environmental Quality</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Office of Water Permits
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Industrial Pretreatment/Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Program</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PPCPs, EDCs, and Microconstituents<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx">http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx</a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Mail: P.O. Box 1105, Richmond, VA 23218</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Location: 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PH: 804-698-4028 FAX: 804-698-4032<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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