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German Dioxin threat not going away anytime soon – over 900 more farms forced to close – Germany agrees to enforce higher standards in animal feed production

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

 

Some weeks ago  German government food inspectors uncovered excessively high levels of the cancer-causing substance ‘dioxin’ in some poutlry products and eggs, which were later traced to an animal feed company.

The chemical – traced back to company Harles and Jentzsch, which  supplyed up to 3,000 tons of ‘fatty- acids’ which had been sold for  industrial use and ended up instead as animal feed.

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