Antibiotic contamination of poultry meat in Brazil received strong attention in Germany
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Last Update: 2002-06-21
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Source: Internet
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Lead: the German Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday that it had found 11 cases of contamination of poultry meat imported from Brazil with harmful antibiotics Since the illegal antibiotic "furacilin" was found in imported Thai poultry, the European Union began to require systematic inspection of shrimp and poultry imported from Thailand in March this year Products imported from other countries are also subject to field testing for the drug "Furacilin" is a carcinogen, which has been banned in the EU since the mid-1990s "In the past few weeks, the drug has been found in poultry meat imported from Brazil 11 times in the European Union," Alexander Mueller, Deputy Minister of agriculture, said on Monday He added that the repeated discovery of the banned drug showed that Brazil had done very little to implement EU health requirements Mueller said the European Food Safety Commission will discuss the discovery of the antibiotics on June 20 He said poultry products from countries that are still using furacilin need to be tested for such systems This incident is another food safety panic after the recent weed ether pollution incident in Germany.
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