Monday, March 3, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Banned ingredient found in cocaine
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Half of the cocaine seized in Florida late last year contained benzene, a carcinogen that has been banned from consumer products because it has been shown to cause leukemia, a federal official said yesterday.
"We see the potential as extremely dangerous for lung damage or worse," said Robert H. Feldkamp, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
The agency in January asked the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to evaluate the possible effects of benzene used in manufacturing cocaine. It has not been determined whether people who use cocaine may be in danger, Feldkamp said in a telephone interview.
The CDC study is expected in April or May, he said.
Benzene began to show up in cocaine in early 1985 after the agency took steps to prevent illegal drug manufacturers from obtaining ether, previously a key chemical in making cocaine, Feldkamm said.
Six years ago, DEA officials determined that 98 percent of the ether being shipped to Colombia, one
of the primary cocaine exporting countries, was going to drug traffickers, and only 2 percent to legitimate users.
Cocaine is processed with ether and other substances to make cocaine hydrochloride, the product reaching most users.
"It was unheard of to manufacture cocaine without ether" Feldkamp said
The DEA, however, in its campaign to curb drug abuse, obtained the cooperation of ether manufacturers to limit the flow of the substance to cocaine makers.
"We do know that despite the campaign, the supply of cocaine has not diminished. So it was necessary to find out what was being used instead," Feldkamp said.
In January 1985, DEA officials began testing confiscated cocaine to determine what was being used as a substitute, and test results increasingly showed benzene.
By last November and December, half of the cocaine seized in Florida contained benzene. Other samples had been processed with toluene, methyl ethyl ketone and other chemicals, which are not thought to be as harmful as benzene.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has
baned the use of benzene in consumer products. It is used primarily in gasoline and in laboratories.
James L. Luke, former medical examiner for the District of Columbia, said studies had linked benzene to leukemia and other hematological disorders as well as birth defects.
Worker exposure to benzene and five other chemicals — arsenic, asbestos, chlorine, nickel and petroleum distillates — are believed responsible for 20 to 38 percent of the more than 600,000 cases of cancer diagnosed in the United States every year, according to a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health study cited in yesterday's Washington Post.
Sydney Wolfe, a spokesman for the Public Citizen Health Research Group, was quoted as calling benzene an extremely potent carcinogen that has been known for two decades to cause leukemia.
Benzene is very dangerous at low levels, even levels of one part a million or less. Wolfe said.
Of the other chemicals found recently in cocaine, small amounts of toluene are known to pose no danger, methyl ethyl ketone causes skin irritations and methylene chloride is classified as a carcinogen, although not as dangerous as benzene.
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