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Another powder freakout, though this one is very tame: According to 1010WINS, a NJ Transit train that left NYC at 7:01 a.m. for Long Branch was stopped when a suspicious powder was found on the floor around 7:41 a.m. "Police say a suspicious substance found on an NJ Transit train was Ultra Slim-Fast. Spokesman Dan Stessel says the diet supplement was found on the floor of the sixth car of Train 3221... Stessel says about 200 passengers were transferred to the next train. The spokesman says no one complained of any health problems." It was taken seriously by authorities—check out the hazmat suit!

After three foreign offices received envelopes containing a suspicious substance on Monday night, three more received similar envelopes yesterday. First, the German Mission to the U.N. reported receiving an envelope, and later in the day, the British and Russian Missions also received envelopes. The NYPD expects more letters to be found in the coming days and Mayor Bloomberg said of the incidents, "Anybody that thinks that it's a joke is making a very bad mistake. If we apprehend you you're going to face criminal charges."

We're hearing that suspicious powder was also found at the German Consulate, located at U.N. Plaza, this morning. Yesterday, envelopes containing a suspicious white powder arrived in the mail at the French and Austrian Missions as well as the Uzbekistan Mission; authorities deemed those envelopes to be safe and the three incidents as hoaxes.

Hazmat teams descended on two United Nations missions and a consulate in midtown Manhattan last evening, after they received envelopes containing an unknown white powder. Decontamination tents were set up outside the French Mission at 245 East 47th, the Austrian Mission at 600 Third Avenue, and Uzbekistan Consulate at 801 Second AVenue.