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Biologists in British Colum bia and the western United States are worried that poach ers are putting a strain on black bear populations to feed the de mand in Asia for a popular home remedy made from the animal's gallbladders Fspinoza and forensics tech nician Jo Ann Shafer took ex tracts of more than 1,000 gallbladders from boars and other animals and ran them through a high-performance liq uid chromatograph, which identifies the various chemicals in a sample. They wore able to come up with a signature for the bile acids found in bear galls Dried gallbladders are ground into a powder believed in Asia to cure a variety of ills as well as serve as a tone It is popular in China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Thailand A poacher in the United States can get between $40 and $80 for a bear gallbladder, but by the time it is sold several times and reaches Asia, the price rises astronomically, said Dave McMullen. McMullen is the U S Fish and Wildlife Ser vice's assistant regional direc tor lor law enforcement in Port land. "They tell me if you send the whole carcass, you can really get some money for them, in excess of Si,000," he said. That demand has fueled pouching in the United States and Canada. "One of the problems we had in the past has been identifying positively that a gall for sale is in fuct a bear gall," said McMullen " They always ad vertise as bear galls But there are a lot of similarities between bear galls and other galls, par ticularly pig " 111 the past, experts testifying m court had to rely on physical characteristics of a gall bladder and could only testify that they believed a particular sample came from a bear, McMullen said "It does obviously make a better case in court if we can say with absolute certainty this gall came from a bear," he said. The test will keep investiga tors from running down blind alleys, he added. "Somebody might come to us and allege that so-and-so is sidl ing bear galls,” McMullen said What wo can do is maybe buy one or two and see if they real ly are dealing in bear galls.” Espinoza ami Shafer's re search found that outside Cana da , the vast majority of gallbladders alleged to come from bears ucluully don't. Of the gallbladders seized in the United States, only lti percent were genuine. Of those from Hong Kong and Malaysia, only 3 percent were real. But in Can ada, 98 percent were from bears. Espinoza said that indicates bear poaching is much more of a problem in Canada than in the United States.