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When will the Department of Justice complete its testing of Zylon®-based body armor and provide the public safety community with the definitive answers on the performance of Zylon®-based body armor?
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We anticipate the completion of the broad-based Zylon®. testing initiative in Spring 2005. This testing will indicate whether Zylon®-based body armors degrade, the general extent of the degradation, and what factors may be causing the degradation.
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