The FDA's just-announced import ban on some farm-raised seafood from China, based on its concerns about chemical residues, attracted bad press for Asia's export powerhouse and was more bad news for the worldwide fisheries industry.

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The evidence cited includes first-hand interviews with Laotian refugees in Thailand who claim to have been attacked, doctors who have treated them, individuals who have delivered samples of alleged chemical weapons residues and who claim to possess captured munitions suspected of containing chemical agents.

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But the Washington Post this week quoted officials as saying the two countries had struck a deal in which America will pay towards removing residues of the chemical from Vietnamese soil.

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