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- <text id=89TT0543>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Prophylactics
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- PROPHYLACTICS
- A Burst of Controversy
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Condoms may have proliferated lately, but not all of them
- are created equal. So says the March issue of Consumer Reports.
- Investigators checked 40 brands and 16,000 individual condoms
- for leakage and strength. When the prophylactics were filled
- with ten ounces of water, the test used by the U.S. Government,
- all brands managed to pass. But researchers got different
- results when they filled condoms with several quarts of air,
- the standard required by such countries as Denmark and Canada.
- Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9
- (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test 10%
- of the time. Consumer Reports labeled many of the samples
- "grossly defective." A spokesman for their manufacturer, Ansell
- Inc. of Dothan, Ala., declared, "Consumer Reports does not
- understand condoms." As for the Nonoxynol-9 product, the company
- said that the magazine's testers were using condoms that Ansell
- had voluntarily recalled because of defects.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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