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Table PPP-6. Purity of heroin at retail level, 2005 [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) Minimum, maximum, mean and modal (typical) purity recorded (percentage)

Country		Heroin (undistinguished)					Brown heroin					White heroin
Country		Sample size	Min.	Max.	Mean	Mode	Sample size	Min.	Max.	Mean	Mode	Sample size	Min.	Max.	Mean	Mode
Belgium		26	2.3	82	21.5	11.5
Bulgaria							130	3	59	19	15
Czech Republic							19	4.7	89	41.5	17
Denmark	(1)						50	8	70	31	28	16	14	79	60	67
Germany	(2)	4283			15
Estonia												23	1.7	94	29.7	31
Greece								0.5	100	22.2
Spain										24
France		366	LT5	81.9	16.2	1	320	LT5	76	11.4	1	46	17.4	81.9	56.6	70.6
Latvia							79	2	87	44	73; 33; 26
Lithuania			1.2	77.8	39	52
Luxembourg							37	4.9	57.7	28.2	57.4
Hungary		59	7	30	20	20 ; 25
Malta							63	27.2	41.6	38.6	39.7
Netherlands-A		41		78	43.1
Netherlands-B		1		23	23
Austria							157	0.2	47.7	8.4	2.3
Poland							14	0.2	33.9
Portugal							29	6.7	41	18.5
Slovenia							245	1.5	50.7	16.5	14.6
Slovakia	(3)	898	0.5	51.3	12	12.5
United Kingdom	(4)						4607	1	97	46.5	52
Turkey							9	29	65	47
Norway							274	1	48	26		4	29	61	45

Notes:

Min. = minimum purity recorded; Max. = maximum purity recorded; Mean = mean purity recorded; Mode = Most frequent (typical) purity recorded.

LT = less than.

Data were not available in 2005 for the unlisted EU Member States.

(1) Data reported as modes are actually median values.

(2) The value reported as mean is actually the median.

(3) The value reported as mean is actually the weighted mean.

(4) Data refer to England and Wales only.

Sources:

Reitox national focal points, see Table PPP-6 part (ii).