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Alex Mitchell

INSANE: Safety fears as date rape drug importation spikes | Rare Historical Photos

Authorities have seized 4200 litres of a 'date-rape' drug smuggled in beauty and food products. (HANDOUT/AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE)

Benign-looking beauty products and food items have been used to smuggle thousands of litres of a dangerous date-rape drug into the country in the months after import restrictions were tightened.

Authorities have stopped the illegal importation of 4200 litres of butanediol - commonly known as "bute" - in the three months since laws were changed to make it a border-controlled drug.

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