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The tablets bearing the Chupa Chups lollies logo are flooding party venues across the UK, the Daily Star Sunday can reveal.

But tests show many are rogue pills containing PMA – a substance which has already killed more than a dozen Brits.

The “Chupa Chups” are being shipped from Amsterdam and Germany on the black market or sent by post for just over £1-per-pill.

Dealers who buy in bulk on the cheap are then flogging the pills they say are almost pure MDMA at up to £5 a go to youngsters in the north-west, Scotland and Northern Ireland. One ad offers 500 for £620.

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It reads: “Nice clean pills, super strong and hard pressed from premium Dutch Quality MDMA made of PMK. Pills are lab-tested in Netherlands.”

But we can reveal several tests have uncovered batches that are not what they say they are – and could kill.

One buyer trading through a well-known hidden web drugs market bought a batch of Chupa Chups with “180mg” of MDMA.

Putting up a warning on social network Reddit, he wrote: “This seller is selling pink Chupa Chups 180mg in several amounts of listings.

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“Let me tell you these are not MDMA. These are PMA pills. They may be pressed beautifully and are tiny and deep red in colour but do not be fooled.

“DO NOT TAKE CHUPA CHUPS. They could well be deadly.”

Our investigators also discovered a Chupa Chups die mould for tablet presses being sold on eBay for £115 by sellers in China.

An underworld source told us: “It’s pretty easy to make these look like the real deal.

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“You buy a tablet press, then purchase the die mould so once you have the mix you shape the pill using the mould.

“You’ve got a perfect Chupa Chups logo and a clean looking, smooth, well-shaped pill.

“It’s what is actually in the pill that matters. And if it’s a deadly chemical – it doesn’t matter how it looks, it can still kill.

“You can buy a pill testing kit for a fiver.”