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Qld man arrested over cow gallstone theft

A MAN has been charged after expensive cattle gallstones, used in alternative medicine to treat hepatitis, disappeared from a Queensland slaughterhouse.

A Queensland man has been charged for allegedly stealing cattle gallstones from an abattoir.
A Queensland man has been charged for allegedly stealing cattle gallstones from an abattoir.

GALLSTONES are something most people would be happy to part with - but not if they're running an abattoir and the stones are worth $20,000 per kilogram.

A COLLECTION of cattle gallstones, which are used in Chinese herbal medicine, began disappearing over the last six months from a slaughterhouse at Oakey, west of Toowoomba.

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