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CD ROM Inc. has announced the first commercially available, field portable, manually operated device to remove the data from a CD or CD-ROM. The data layer is ground into fine powder leaving a polycarbonate disc, with no trace of the original data, which can then be recycled or thrown in the trash. Dr Roger Hutchison, president of CD ROM, Inc. said that "Since the beginning of the CD-ROM industry, there has been a need to destroy the information bearing layer of CD-ROMs. To date, no field portable units have been offered to the military or to such diverse businesses as banks and large corporations that publish confidential and sensitive information on CD-ROM, to destroy the CD-ROMs once their usefulness has expired."