FDA ceremony to torch 3.4 tonnes of seized drugs
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will burn 3.4 tonnes of illicit drugs worth Bt10 billion, as part of the country's 42nd official illicit-drug incineration ceremony in Ayutthaya's Bang Pain Industrial Estate on June 26, FDA chief Boonchai Somboonsu
The drugs, seized from 2,584 cases, included 31 million yaba tablets, 298 kilograms of “ice”, 125 kg of heroin and 125,000 pseudoephedrine-laced medicine tablets plus 322,620 millimeters of pseudoephidrine liquid medicine. They will be destroyed by the environmentally-friendly “pyrolytic incineration” method which will burn the drugs at a temperature of over 850 degrees Celsius.
This haul of drugs is larger than a previous lot burned on June 29 last year when 2.7 tonnes were destroyed, Boonchai said.
The Nation
