ZIMBABWE medical authorities have begun incinerating nine million condoms deemed defective after they failed to pass pressure tests, state television reported late on Wednesday. The Medicine Control Authority expects it to take two weeks to burn all the condoms, the report said. The condoms were declared faulty months ago after some were found to leak during pressure tests, the report said. Under Zimbabwean law, they could not be destroyed until a representative of the manufacturer, the Thailand-based company Surtex, was in the country to witness the incineration, it added. – AFP
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