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Table PPP-8. Purity of synthetic drugs at retail level, 2005 [see all tables in this series...]

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

Country		Amphetamine (percentage)					Methamphetamine (percentage)					Ecstasy (mg of MDMA base per unit)
Country		Sample size	Min.	Max.	Mean	Mode	Sample size	Min.	Max.	Mean	Mode	Sample size	Min.	Max.	Mean	Mode
Belgium		6	6.6	73.4	47		2	0.2	1.2	0.7		32	11.9	155	64.6
Bulgaria		401	2	73	30	20	3	4	38	15	10	108	19	115	84	55
Czech Republic		6	3.3	75	54	72	65	3.4	80.3	62.9	66	135	6.2	53.8	27.2	33
Denmark	(1)	46	1	60	14	10	10	8	42	21	18	143	1	144	59	59
Germany	(2)	2047			7.7		1040716			10					57
Estonia		229	6.3	96	31	31	19	22	90	33.2	31	16	48	280	80	130
Greece			0.8	5.1	2.1
France-A		68	1	92.3	16.3	5	1	72	72	72	72	283	1	124	45.2	50
France-B		39	LT5	54.6	12.7	3.7	3	6	97	64.3		233	LT5	83.9	24.6	10.9
Latvia		187	2	76	32	30; 40	119	14	84	43	23; 55	117	18	207	77	73
Lithuania			0.42	76.5	38	32		0.19	66.5	33	29
Luxembourg		8	1.2	35	12.2							34	1.8	38.3	15.8	2.1
Hungary		221	1	45	14	5 ; 10						279	20	100	58	60; 65
Malta		1	31.3	31.3		31.3						72	21.1	28.9	22.3	21.4
Netherlands-A		517		73	35.2		11		75	45.1		1894		202	77.5
Netherlands-B		16		66	15.8		1		63	63		176		190	77.3
Poland		56	6	85	53.1	84
Portugal		4	3.3	44.8	15.7							16	51		51
Slovakia	(3)	10	2	74.1	12.8	40.5	386	3.7	88.8	46.7	58.3	1684	14.4	127.9	52.7	54.6
Finland-A	(2)	304	0	99.1	23.8	23
Finland-B		31	31	71	44	50
United Kingdom	(4)	1335	1	73	10.1	5	1	77	77	77		181	5	147	66.3	62
Turkey		84	5	60	32.5
Norway		406	1	99	45		49	1	97	50		35	46	132	81

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-8 part (ii).