### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
The decontamination may also require interrupting/degrading the other channels (due to distortions introduced by the IR decontamination)

### Assistant:

VARIABLE: distortions
CONDITION: introduced by the IR decontamination
OR: /
KEYWORD: due to
EFFECT_1: The decontamination may also require interrupting
EFFECT_2: degrading the other channels
CAUSE_1: distortions introduced by the IR decontamination

