EU HEALTH ALERT SERVICE WARNS OF BRAZIL E-COLI MEAT CONTAMINATION CASES
February 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) RASFF food safety alert service has warned of e-coli being detected in Brazilian meat cargoes exported to Europe. Dutch customs officials rejected three consignments of chilled beef from Brazil after discovering they had been contaminated with shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli. Spanish customs also blocked a Brazilian cargo, of frozen beef, for the same reason. And Italian frontier controls stopped the entry of e-coli contaminated Brazilian frozen boneless beef.Elsewhere, Italian authorities seized a consignment of frozen deer meat ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.