Edge Davao 5 Issue 165

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VOL.5 ISSUE 165 • SUNDAY - MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 - 22, 2012

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Science/ Environment Page 4 Science\ Environment

Human trafficking

73 women, kids saved; 3 nabbed By Anthony S. Allada

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HREE persons were arrested for illegally recruiting 73 women, including nine minors, who were rescued by authorities in Prosperidad, Agusan

Suburbia

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Victims mostly come from Maguindanao, North Cotabato and Cotabato City.

del Sur last Tuesday morning. The suspects, Nora Dipatuan Malagyan, Miguel Salvador and

Aslea Melo, are detained at the Prosperidad municipal police station in Patin-ay, Prosperidad.

The victims, mostly from Maguindanao and Cotabato City, were brought Friday night to the office of the Department of Social

F73 WOMEN, 10

CARNAPPING. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte Carpio (center) and P/SSupt. Gregorio R. Pimentel, Highway Patrol Group (HPG) chief, look on while Davao City Police Director P/SSupt. Ronald dela Rosa demonstrate how carnappers cut the wires for the alarm devices of vehicles during the presentation of arrested members of Baktin carnap group and the recovered carnapped vehicles at the Davao City Police Office on Friday. [LEAN DAVAL JR.]

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FDA warns vs spread of banned drugs Follow Us On

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HE Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has warned anew on the proliferation of banned drugs peddled in the sidewalks of the Chinatown district, Davao City, the same products that were the target of previous confiscations

and arrests. Arnold Alindada, FDA Davao region director, said the banned drugs being peddled again were those promising to promote weight loss and enhance sexual potency. “There’s even a medi-

cal doctor here that suffered a colon cancer after taking big doses of that slimming drug,” Alindada said, without identifying the patient. The allowable presence of mercury should not exceed one part per million, “but

: Recharging Life

the banned drug contained 1,000 ppm,” Alindada added. The FDA did not identify the origin of the banned drugs, although they could have been sneaked into the city using either the cities of Zamboanga and General Santos. MC/MindaNews


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