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Ben Johnson
"CRIME gangs manufacturing the dangerous party drug "ice'' are smuggling in large quantities of the main ingredient - cold and flu tablets - from south-east Asia. This is in response to a crackdown on sales of the tablets in Australian pharmacies. The ingredients for "ice'' can be bought legally in Asia, where tablets are up to 90 per cent pure ephedrine or pseudoephedrine.
The growing trend has alarmed Australian Customs, which has seized 24kg of the drugs - worth up to $31 million on the street - from travellers' luggage and postal packages in the past six months."
