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    Re: No, no, no, not 'unbroken cellophane' but the kind of plastic used in packs of bacon Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on March 4, 2019, 1:10 am, in reply to "No, no, no, not 'unbroken cellophane' but the kind of plastic used in packs of bacon"

    I can't find the bacon pack story...any ref Sue?

    "...didn't the OPCW say that the substance used in Amesbury was 'not known to them' as a chemical weapon and they had to create an additional category in their database to record it as such? So, clearly, whatever was found there could not have been 'novichok' because that was known to them. Strange how Porton Down managed to identify a substance not known to the OPCW so quickly."


    It was the "Novichok" itself that was apparently unknown to them: “There is no record of the Novichok group of nerve agents having been declared by a state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention,” the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a press release" Yet "...in 2016, Iranian chemists synthesised five Novichok agents for analysis and produced detailed mass spectral data which was added to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Central Analytical Database." : Strange that...

    Vil Mirzanyanov: the subject of the above story was also the man "...who revealed the existence of the novichok family of chemical agents to the world..." and in fact he "claimed that he helped invent the A-232 agent.

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