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BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 8 (UPI) -- A German firm plans to open Europe's first snake farm in southwest Hungary to produce venom for pharmaceutical and beauty industries, officials said.
The German company, registered in Liechtenstein, is preparing to build the snake farm with an anti-venom research facility at a remote place about 12 miles from the southwestern town of Kaposvar, the Budapest Times reported Monday.
The farm, equipped with special security measures, will breed about 1,000 reptiles that are to include various kinds of Asian and European snakes for venom extraction.
The snakes' processed poison and anti-venom will be dispatched to hospitals, drug factories, and cosmetics plants.
The common adder and the Danubian meadow viper are Hungary's only two genuine and strictly protected snake species, the newspaper said.
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