RE: Belgian dioxin contamination

["Peter Vanhoutte" <peter.vanhoutte@ping.be>]

Verkest is a producer of animal feed (cows, chickens ...). The feed consists
partly out fat from animals, paretly out used household oils (mainly from
the famous Belgian frites). The last one is locally collected. Investigators
at first thought is were these oils that were mixed with pcb-containing
cooling liquid. But seen the dimensions of the problem it's very unlikely
that this is the cause. An other possibility is that the feed has been mixed
up with large quantities contaminated industrial oils.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: dioxin-l@essential.org [mailto:dioxin-l@essential.org]On Behalf Of
Campbell, Jon
Sent: woensdag 9 juni 1999 16:18
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L
Subject: RE: Belgian dioxin contamination


I thought Verkest was an oils manufacturer? What on earth can be further
upstream? Or is Verkest just a collector of oils from other sources?

Thanks
Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: G. De Mey [mailto:g.de.mey@pandora.be]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 7:42 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L
Subject: Re: Belgian dioxin contamination




Fellow environment watchers,

Verkest & Son  is cleared but still held in custody because of appeal. It
seems
the contamination source lies further upstream. Because of the late
announcement by our ministers, the search for the source, spread and impact
of
the contamination is a long haul...

G. De Mey