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Fertilizer: Do we need to increase security around its sale?

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Police have recovered 1,625 kilograms of ammonium nitrate -- a chemical fertilizer that can be used as a key ingredient in bomb-making -- saying there was nothing suspicious about its purchase.

Investigators have determined the purchaser is a farmer who bought the ammonium nitrate to use as fertilizer.

"There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the purchase of the ammonium nitrate. It is expected that there will be no charges," the Toronto Police Services said in a news release.

Police said they located the ammonium nitrate from two Toronto addresses.

Police said the purchaser contacted investigators after composite sketches of the man were released to the media.

Earlier, police in southern Ontario asked for the public's help in finding the man who bought the fertilizer.



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Do you think that there should be more security surrounding the sale of fertilizer? What would you suggest?

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