Europe allows to continue to import fish meal as pig and chicken feed (12.26)
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Last Update: 2003-03-12
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Source: Internet
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The EU agriculture minister announced at a meeting recently that in order to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, it is forbidden to import powder made of animal meat and bones, but it is still allowed to import fish meal as feed for pigs and chickens The decision saved Chile, the main fish meal exporter in South America, from possible losses The spread of mad cow disease caused panic in European countries At one time, European countries included fish meal in the list of products prohibited from import, causing strong dissatisfaction from Chile, Peru and other major fish meal exporting countries in the world They believe that fish meal is not the main source of food pollution causing the spread of mad cow disease EU countries decided to lift the ban on the import of fish meal after study Statistics show that Chile's fish meal exports to the EU account for about 10.18% of its total fish meal exports In the first three quarters of this year, Chile exported 409000 tons of fish meal, of which 29900 tons were exported to Europe In European countries, except Norway and Denmark, which are used to feed salmon, other countries use fish meal to feed livestock and poultry China feed industry information network MCP (author:)
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