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	<title>The Temas Blog &#187; Chemicals</title>
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		<title>Recycling Ozone-Depleting Substances</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/protection-of-the-ozone-layer/recycling-ozone-depleting-substances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protection of the Ozone Layer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camada de ozônio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFC-12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRN+]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geladeiras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HCFCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HFCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidroclorofluorcarbonos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydrochlorofluorocarbons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montreal Protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ozone depleting substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pernambuco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PNUD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porto Alegre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protocolo de Montreal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refrigerants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Grande do Sul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[São Paulo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNDP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Regeneration and Recycling Center of the Northeast (Centro de Regeneração e Reciclagem do Nordeste &#8211; CRN) will be inaugurated  in the capital of Pernambuco state, Recife. The principal purpose of the CRN is to collect, purify and recycle chlorofluorocarbon 12 (CFC-12), primarily taken from old refrigerators.  The Center can also regenerate other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil and Uruguay Take the Lead in Implementing GHS</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/hazardous-substances/brazil-and-uruguay-take-the-lead-in-implementing-ghs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agenda 21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clasificación]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dangerous goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECOSOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquetado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fichas de datos de seguridad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IOMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[material safety data sheets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MERCOSUL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MERCOSUR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OCDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PNUD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productos químicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[químicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[químicos peligrosos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tabaré Vázquez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNECE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uruguay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Uruguay became the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to implement the Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) (known in Spanish as the Sistema Globalmente Armonizado &#8211; SGA) through binding legislation.  President Tabaré Vázquez and his Council of Ministers signed Decree 307/009 on safety measures for chemical industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Main Causes of Accidential Poisoning in Jamaica&#8217;s Children</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/the-main-causes-of-accidential-poisoning-in-jamaicas-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/the-main-causes-of-accidential-poisoning-in-jamaicas-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 01:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleaning Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accidental poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bleach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CARPIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child-resistant packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[household chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poison prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soft drink bottles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water bottles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=4449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Ministry of Health (MOH):
Bleach, Pharmaceuticals and Pesticides, main agents of accidental poisoning in children … Health Ministry warns parents and caregivers
The Ministry of Health’s surveillance reports have uncovered that bleach, pharmaceuticals (medications) and pesticides are still major household health hazards accounting for majority of cases of accidental poisoning in children.
According to the 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Bans DDT</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/hazardous-substances/brazil-bans-ddt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/hazardous-substances/brazil-bans-ddt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agrotoxicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alteração endócrina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anvisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadeia alimentar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carcino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contaminantes organicos persistentes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime ambiental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DDT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diclorofeniltricloroetano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endocrine disruptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[export]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exportação]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[import]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[importação]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incineration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministério da Saúde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosquitoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organochlorine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persistent organic pollutants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[produtos organoclorados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saúde pública]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[substâncias perigosas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vector control]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=4413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian President Lula just signed a law banning all manufacture, import, export, stocking, sale or use of the organochlorine pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, more commonly known as DDT.  The law also requires (a) the incineration of all existing DDT stocks in Brazil within 30 days; (b) federal agencies to complete a study within two years of the environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BNDES Finances &#8220;Green Polyethylene&#8221; Production</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/industry-sectors/packaging-industry-sectors/bndes-finances-green-polyethylene-production/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/industry-sectors/packaging-industry-sectors/bndes-finances-green-polyethylene-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 23:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoolquímica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BNDES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Braskem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cana-de-açúcar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eteno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethylene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gases de efeito estufa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green polyethylene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grupo Odebrecht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odebrecht Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrochemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petroquímicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polietileno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polietileno verde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polímero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pólo Petroquímico de Triunfo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polyethylene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Grande do Sul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugarcane]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=3702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES):
The BNDES approves financing of R$ 555 million for Braskem to produce sugarcane ethylene and polyethylene

Ethanol Chemistry Project is the first to be supported by the Bank

The BNDES approved R$ 555.6 million in financing for Braskem’s innovative project intended to produce sugarcane ethylene and polyethylene. The total investment is of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Launches HCFC Elimination Program</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/protection-of-the-ozone-layer/brazil-launches-hcfc-elimination-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/protection-of-the-ozone-layer/brazil-launches-hcfc-elimination-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronic/Electrical Equipment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protection of the Ozone Layer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aquecimento global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ar-condicionado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camada de ozônio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CH3CFCl2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHF2Cl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[espumas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geladeiras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GTZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HCFC-141b]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HCFC-22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HCFCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidroclorofluorcarbonos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydrochlorofluorocarbons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBAMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintenance services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meio ambiente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montreal Protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ozone depleting substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PNUD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protocolo de Montreal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prozon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serviço de manutenção]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solventes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solvents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNDP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil has just launched the Brazilian Program for the Elimination of HCFCs (PBH) to end that nation&#8217;s use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs).  HCFCs became the substitute of choice for many of the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) controlled under the Montreal Protocol (on substitutes that deplete the ozone layer) used a refrigerants in such products as freezers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pesticide Residue Levels in Brazilian Food</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/pesticide-residue-levels-in-brazilian-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/pesticide-residue-levels-in-brazilian-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food/Beverage Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abacaxi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABRAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acefato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acephate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultura orgánica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agrotoxicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alimentos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anvisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arroz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[batata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cabbage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carrots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cebola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cenoura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distrito Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endossulfam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endosulfan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Espírito Santo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feijão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frutas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goiás]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good agricultural practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INCRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IOM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ITEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[José Gomes Temporão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LACEN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laranja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lettuce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maça]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mamão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mato Grosso do Sul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merenda escolar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metamidofós]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methamidophos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minas Gerais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministério da Agricultura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic produce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pará]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paraná]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pernambuco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticide residues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pimentão]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pineapple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[produção integrada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repolho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resíduos de agrotóxicos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Santa Catarina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strawberries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarkets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermercados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tocantins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[verduras]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Which fresh food sold in Brazil has been found most likely to present &#8220;irregular&#8221; pesticide residues &#8212; levels higher than those permitted by regulation, or even residues of pesticides banned or not authorized for use on the foodstuff it is found on?
Peppers.  In 2008 more than 64% of the pepper samples analyzed by the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Plans to Ban or Restrict 12 Pesticides</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/hazardous-substances/brazil-plans-to-ban-or-restrict-12-pesticides/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/hazardous-substances/brazil-plans-to-ban-or-restrict-12-pesticides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Substances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abamectina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acefato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acephate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agrochemicals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian health officials are concerned.  In 2008 Brazil became the largest consumer of pesticides in the world, surpassing the US with a market of more than US$7 billion.  Yet many of the pesticides now manufactured in, or imported into, Brazil and widely used there have been banned or severely restricted for health and environmental reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil Increases Pesticide Packaging Take-Back</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/waste-recycling/brazil-increases-pesticide-packaging-take-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted before on The Temas Blog (here, here and here) about Brazil&#8217;s amazingly successful program at recovering used pesticide packaging, which is achieving recovery rates higher than in many OECD nations.
Well folks, Brazil continues to improve on this front: the National Institute for Processing Empty Packaging (inpEV), the industry-appointed group solely in charge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R$14.2 mn. to Clean Up Organochloride Contamination in Santo André / R$14,2 milhões para a remediação de poluição de produtos organoclorados em Santo André</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/r142-mil-to-clean-up-organochloride-contamination-in-santo-andre-r142-milhoes-para-a-remediacao-de-poluicao-de-produtos-organoclorados-em-santo-andre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES):
BNDES approves R$ 14.2 million to Technological Research Institute of São Paulo to clean waters and subsoil of S. André
The directors of BNDES, the Development Bank, approved a technological support line, in the amount of R$ 14.2 million, with non-reimbursable funds, to the Technological Research Institute of São Paulo AS-IPT. [...]]]></description>
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