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FROM
CUBA
Store's stocks of powdered milk in damaged
by rats
HAVANA, Cuba, February 1 (www.cubanet.org)
- A substantial part of the powdered milk
stock at a dollar store in Arroyo Naranjo
has been spoiled by rats, said a clerk at
the store, adding that there is little they
can do about it.
"We have no way to control them, we
have no poison, or any other way to face
them," he said.
The 500 and 1000 gram packages labeled
"Delicious Cuban product" normally
sell for 2.50 and 5.00 dollars, or 65 and
130 pesos.
A customer at the store who heard about
the problem commented: "It's a shame
that children are not given milk after age
7, and here the mice are consuming it."
Milk in Cuba is sold under the government's
rationing system to children up to the age
of 7 at subsidized prices; after that children
are allowed to buy a soy bean yogurt that
parents say the children don't like.
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