Shoemakers reeling from mustard-oil law

TROPICAL storm ‘Ondoy’ devastated much of the famous shoemaking industry in Marikina City, leaving many hand-to-mouth shoemakers mired in muddy rainwater and unemployment. But even before Ondoy inundated Metro Manila, the multimillion-peso industry had been gasping for breath against another enemy in the form of a stinking liquid called mustard oil. Shoemakers in Marikina are up in arms over Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) Resolution No. 6, which classifies any toluene-based contact cement (locally known as ‘rugby’) without at least five-percent mustard oil content as an illegal drug. Adding mustard oil to rugby is aimed at making all commercially available solvents repugnant to rugby addicts,…

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Shoemakers reeling from mustard-oil law

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