Word: mutagenicity
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...synthesized its own NPPD and began tests that by last year showed it to be a mutagen. This finding seemed academic, since Soviet use of the chemical appeared to have stopped in 1982. But last spring a routine sweep of the embassy found NPPD again. Also, some embassy employees developed skin rashes, the possible result of contact with heavier-than-usual concentrations of the chemical. Intensified searches pointed to more widespread Soviet use of NPPD, and in larger quantities than ever before. At one point, in fact, careless KGB operatives seem to have sprinkled it so heavily in the embassy...
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