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Facing criticism from law enforcement and the drug-prevention community, the Hershey candy company has announced that it will stop making Ice Breakers Pacs — dissolvable mint packages that some said resembled bags of crack cocaine.

The Associated Press reported Jan. 24 that concerns about Ice Breakers Pacs were raised by the Philadelphia narcotics squad, who said the candy looked like the heat-sealed bags of crack being sold on local streets. Philadelphia’s chief police inspector, William Blackburn, was among the loudest critics of the product.

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Hershey’s Ice Breakers Pacs — dissolvable pouches filled with mint-flavored powder — are being criticized by some law-enforcement officials who say the packaging resembles pouches of illicit cocaine and heroin, the Associated Press reported Nov. 30.

“Being in narcotics the majority of my career, I thought it was the real stuff,” said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn of the nickel-sized mints.

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