He ventured far beyond mainstays, selling talcum powder in India, margarine in South Korea and fashion eyewear in Italy.

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Fake versions of drugs can be almost impossible to spot, but can containing inactive ingredients like talcum powder, or even toxic ingredients such as rat poison.

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She wanted to run from this nasty room, which was cold like a refrigerator but smelled of something sweet, sickish like talcum powder and sweat but Molina detained her.

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The police protested: since the revellers thronging the streets would be dousing anyone they came across with water and talcum powder, surely the police had a right to defend themselves in kind?

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