A large number of broilers will be destroyed

Lead: Reuters May 30 tens of thousands of broilers from German ecological farms face the fate of being slaughtered and destroyed for suspected consumption of feed contaminated by banned herbicides Veterinary officials said Thursday that animal health and quarantine officials had investigated the cause of the contamination of the feed with "weeder", which is a carcinogenic risk A large number of poultry from "organic" farms, some of which are traditional ones, are fed this feed Agriculture minister kuenast said it was not clear how the pollution occurred The agriculture minister of Lower Saxony said the possibility of man-made destruction could not be ruled out Retailers in the market have pulled some organic products off their shelves The government has seized more than 250000 poultry, mainly broilers, from farms that may have used the toxic feed A total of 550 tons of feed uses wheat containing the banned chemical "weeding ether", which is then sold to more than 100 chicken farms all over Germany, all of which use ecological breeding methods to produce chicken, eggs and other poultry products The scope of the food crisis is unclear The EU health minister sent a letter to the German government Thursday asking about the amount of meat, eggs and animal feed involved in the incident and whether they were shipped to other EU Member States A spokesman for the Ministry of agriculture in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg fuorbomen said 98000 broilers from nine farms in the state that had used toxic feed would be slaughtered and their owners had been ordered not to sell them He also said that a batch of eggs had been seized and would be destroyed The specific number is not clear, but the number is very large "But we want to emphasize that" herbicidal ether "is only dangerous if it is taken for a long time, and it is unlikely to cause harm if it is taken occasionally." (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: