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Dioxin food scare
The UK press are reacting in a mixed way to the publicity - The
Independent featured a leader claiming that the only health effect of
dioxin was Chloracne and that we had nothing to worry about....ho hum.
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Dioxin food scare spreads to pork and beef
ENDS Daily - 04/06/99
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The Belgian food scare over dioxin-contaminated poultry
products has spread to other meats amid fears that pigs and
cows were fed the same dioxin-contaminated animal feed that
was used on chicken farms. The European Commission today
extended its ban on suspect chicken and eggs to include
pork and bovine meat from Belgian farms that might have
used the feed since January. The US government took its
own action yesterday, banning imports of all chicken and
pork products from the EU. Meanwhile, nothing further is
known about the original source of the dioxins, which are
believed to have entered the food chain when a supplier of
ingredients to feed manufacturers mixed some kind of oil
with the usual animal fat (ENDS Daily 3 June). The Belgian
federal government has set up an internet site for those
worried about the food scare.
Contacts: Belgian agriculture ministry, tel: +32 2 287
0240. References: Information on the dioxin contamination
issue is available from the Belgian government
(http://belgium.fgov.be).
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