Sunday, January 16, 2011

More farms closed in Germany as dioxin scare continues

Germany has closed 934 more pork and poultry farms after a fear of dioxin contamination in the animal feed. Officials in Lower Saxony have opened an investigation after they discovered that a manufacture did not reveal a full list of all the companies it had made deliveries to. The origins of the contamiation have been traced to Schleswig Holstein, where oils intended for use in bio-fuels were accidentally distributed for animal feed. The scandal prompted South Korea and China to ban imports of German pork and poultry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12200619

Jamie Alt

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