January 21, 2011

 

Imported samples of German pork pass dioxin tests

 

 

Five imported samples of German food products, including pork, have passed dioxin tests after they were collected from retailers earlier this week.

 

The samples were collected by the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department for testing.

 

A CFS spokesman said last Friday (Jan 14), "In view of the recent detection of dioxin in some eggs, poultry and pork produced in Germany, samples were collected in the local market in the past few days and sent to the Government Laboratory for dioxin tests."

 

"Amongst them, the dioxin tests on one sample of egg and four samples of pork sausage have been completed. The test results are all satisfactory," he added

 

The CFS would continue to collect samples of imported German food products, which includes pork, from the market and at the import level for dioxin tests, he added.

 

The spokesman reiterated that according to information from the European Commission's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, with the exception of two consignments of eggs exported to the United Kingdom via the Netherlands, no products suspected to be contaminated with dioxin were exported to other countries. The German authorities had suspended food exports from the affected farms and processing plants.

 

"We will continue liaison with the German authorities and the European Commission on the latest developments, and monitor the situation closely," he said.

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