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Old 20th Jan 2012, 21:37
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Just looking at the list of products in that "Riegle Report". Not a lot there to get bothered about - just diagnostic screening samples, kind of thing any medical school would have. Nothing much you can do with the materials listed. Quantities are insignificant.
What would worry me would be large quantities of culture media, fermenters, centrifuges, extraction gear and other process equipment.
I know from personal experience that the same atomic energy site also used to purchase custom made precursors for radioactive diagnostic tracers - almost certainly for diagnosing cancers.
Only objection that could be raised against sending them would be moral - on the grounds that only Saddam's cronies would benefit from the health care.
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