BONN Turkish maternity wards will have work on their hands over the coming months after 600,000 leaky condoms were exported from Germany, the German magazine Focus reports today.
The London brand condoms were withdrawn from sale in Germany at the end of 1994 but a batch of 600,000 were shipped overseas, the report said. According to Mr Frank Kientz, a spokesman for the manufacturer interviewed by Focus, the faulty batches were sent to a company based in the western German town of Kerpen to be destroyed. But a few weeks ago, a company executive in Turkey was offered the condoms, still in their original packaging with a German label. A judicial inquiry has started.