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        Books and journals from India were and perhaps still are heavily
fumigated before being sent off.

        A. DeAngelis
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Maggie Harrer wrote:

> Dear Jaci, just heard an amazing story from a friend of mine who has written
> a wonderful book on Hawaiian Legends that is being published by Univ. of
> Hawaii Press.  They received the books, in good time for Christmas, and the
> Scheduled book signing, but they all smelled so bad, they decided they
> couldn't sell them.  THe entire lot will be trashed, and it has to be printed
> again, now aiming for a January date - missing the entire Holiday season.
> Why?  Apparently, it was printed in China, and they had fumigated them over
> there, to prevent some bugs from entering our country, and either over did
> it, or made it too strong...at any rate, it was the fumigant causing the
> smell, and apparently there was no way to get the smell out of the books.
> This is not, one hopes, a common occurence, but thought you might be
> interested.
>
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