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Article

27 Sep 2001

Author:
Associated Press, in San Francisco Chronicle

Eight California stores fined for selling illegal insecticides to customers

Eight Southern California stores selling illegal insecticides that looked like candy and blackboard chalk were fined by the [U.S.] Environmental Protection Agency...The illegal mothballs found at stores in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam contained carcinogens and insecticidal chalks that had two toxins known to poison children.