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Reports of poppy in chocolates rattle Egypt

Controversy has swept across Egypt after statements made by a former Egyptian official revealed that there are chocolates in the Egyptian market containing a small percentage of a narcotic substance.
Schogetten chocolate.

CAIRO — Egyptian authorities are testing samples of a chocolate brand that has recently sparked controversy for allegedly containing the narcotic opium poppy.

The outcry erupted after Gaber Nassar, the former president of Cairo University, revealed that several people, including civil servants, had failed drug tests at their places of work after presumably consuming a type of chocolate that contains poppy. 

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