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Reuters PORT SAID, Egypt, 26 April -- Egyptian prosecutors have ordered two men held for questioning about alleged imports of hospital waste from Cyprus, officials said on Friday. They said customs men in this Mediterranean port had seized three containers ostensibly full of waste paper for recycling in a paper factory in Tenth of Ramadan City, northeast of Cairo. Health and customs inspectors found they contained hospital waste, including used sanitary napkins, babies' nappies and X-ray negatives, not listed on the shipping manifest. Prosecutors on Thursday ordered the detention for four days of Sherif Hassan Abdel-Khaleq, 50, head of the Tenth of Ramadan Group for Trade and Marketing, the company that imported the containers. They also ordered the detention of the company's customs agent in Port Said, Mohamed Neguib Haibah, 45. The prosecutors say the import of hospital waste poses a danger to public health and contravenes environmental laws. FAIR USE NOTICE. This document contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. The Basel Action Network is making this article available in our efforts to advance understanding of ecological sustainability and environmental justice issues. We believe that this constitutes a `fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond `fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. More News |