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Thursday, October 27, 2011
EU aims to get firmer grip on dioxin contaminations
October 27, 2011 EU aims to get firmer grip on dioxin contaminations Member states of the EU have endorsed a draft regulation focusing on the handling of crude vegetable oils in order to prevent dioxin contaminations in food and feed. The m ...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Rising feed costs and dioxin crisis to accelerate EU hog decline
March 10, 2011 Rising feed costs and dioxin crisis to accelerate EU hog decline Due to more costly fodder prices and the feed contamination crisis adding pressures on margins from an animal welfare clampdown, the rate of decline in the Euro ...
Monday, February 28, 2011
EU says no further danger from German dioxin contamination
February 28, 2011 EU says no further danger from German dioxin contamination EU's health authorities have declared this week that they see no further danger from an alert in Germany following the discovery of dioxin in animal feed, meat and ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
EU experts to follow up on Germany's dioxin scare
January 18, 2011 EU experts to follow up on Germany's dioxin scare The EU is to send a team of experts to Germany to follow up on the scandal of animal feed tainted with the cancer-causing substance dioxin, officials said Monday (Jan 17). A ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
EU threatens to regulate feed industry over dioxin scare
January 12, 2011 EU threatens to regulate feed industry over dioxin scare The European Commission warned on Tuesday (Jan 11) that it could regulate the animal feed industry if the industry failed to take appropriate action after toxic dioxi ...
Monday, January 10, 2011
Fear over dioxin-tainted eggs spreads in the EU
January 10, 2011 Fear over dioxin-tainted eggs spreads in the EU A scare over eggs that may have been tainted with dioxin at more than 4,700 German farms has spread to the Netherlands and the UK, where some of the eggs were shipped. EU offi ...
Thursday, January 6, 2011
EU demands answers from Germany over animal feed dioxin scare
January 6, 2011 EU demands answers from Germany over animal feed dioxin scare The EU wants Germany to reveal the full extent of the dioxin scandal in animal feed in the country. The discovery of the highly poisonous chemical dioxin in Germa ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
South Africa bans all EU meat and dairy on dioxin scare
December 16, 2008 South Africa bans all EU meat and dairy on dioxin scare     South Africa has imposed a ban on all EU meat and dairy products following the dioxin-tainted pork scandal. The ban, which also includes the suspension of edible ...
Friday, December 12, 2008
EU proposes scheme to help Irish pig farmers in dioxin crisis
December 12, 2008 EU proposes scheme to help Irish pig farmers in dioxin crisis                          The European Commission Thursday (December 11) proposed a scheme to help Irish pig farmers who have been hard hit by revelations of dio ...
Thursday, December 11, 2008
EU food safety agency says dioxin risks in Irish pork minimal
December 11, 2008   EU food safety agency says dioxin risks in Irish pork minimal     The risk for human health from eating contaminated Irish pork is minimal, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said Wednesday (December 10). Respondi ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
EU wants UK explanation on dioxin-contamination issue
December 10, 2008 EU wants UK explanation on dioxin-contamination issue       The UK has to inform EU food safety regulators on what it will do about pork coming from Northern Irish farms that bought tainted animal feed from Ireland, accord ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
EU urges member states to test Irish meat after dioxin scare
December 9, 2008 EU urges member states to test Irish meat after dioxin scare       The European Commission urged member states on Monday (Dec 8, 2008) to check pork from Ireland after the dioxin-contamination case exploded. About 12 EU sta ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
EU sets limits for dioxin and PCBs in food and feed
February 7, 2006 EU sets limits for dioxin and PCBs in food and feed The EU has set maximum levels for dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in food and feed after pig and poultry feed were discovered to be contaminated with dioxin i ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
More northern European farms closed on dioxin fears
February 1, 2006 More northern European farms closed on dioxin fears   The European Commission said Tuesday over 600 pig and chicken farms in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany were temporarily shut after traces of a carcinogenic chemical ...

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