BELGIUM DIOXIN OUTBREAK – GERMANY, NETHERLANDS
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and the Belgian Federal Food Chain Security Agency are investigating the contamination of animal feed with poisonous dioxins, some of which have been exported to Germany and the Netherlands. Hundreds of farms have been closed in the alert in all three countries, which was caused by defective filters at Belgian chemical producer Tessenderlo Chemie. It sold contaminated gelatine to at least three Belgian feed producers, who sold product to farms in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The Commission is trying to discover ...
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