Vietnamese police confiscated 345,000 used condoms ready to be packaged and resold as new, a case that exposes the insecurity of this market in the Asian country, where most condoms are not distributed by the original brands.
According to state television VTV, investigators entered a factory in Binh Duong province, near Ho Chi Minh, last weekend and found workers packing thousands of used condoms for resale.
The police indicated that the bags full of condoms stored in the factory weighed more than 360 kilos, which would be equivalent to about 345,000 condoms that were to be prepared and distributed in the market.
Gadget with which condoms were shaped.
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The
Tuoi Tre
newspaper
reported that Pham Thi Thanh Ngoc, owner of the factory, confessed that she received shipments of used condoms every month and that to clean them she boiled them in water, allowed them to dry and shaped them with a phallic-shaped wooden device before selling it at an approximate price of 0.17 dollars (0.15 euros) per kilo.
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Police are investigating the possible ramifications of this case, which highlights the insecurity of condoms sold in Vietnam, where it is common to sell low-quality condoms camouflaged in fake packages from some of the best-known brands.
Last year, police arrested four people who ran a factory of fake condoms and lubricants that they resold across the country packed in fake packages from brands like Durex, Ok and Sure.
A survey by the Ministry of Health in 2019 revealed that 85% of the 600 million condoms sold in the Asian country each year were not distributed by the original brands and that users pay little attention to the authenticity of the product and pay more attention to the design, the price or the fragrance.
A United Nations report in 2014 warned that 40% of condoms for sale in the country did not meet the necessary quality requirements, increasing the risk of disease transmission and unwanted pregnancies.
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