German common animal feed was found to contain pollutants

Introduction: a new discovery was made on the 12th of the recently raging German animal feed pollution case: after the discovery of carcinogenic herbicides in the ecological feed, the relevant departments recently found that some common feeds also contain toxic substances that may cause cancer German Ministry of agriculture and Consumer Protection Secretary of state Berninger said in parliament on the 12th, the relevant departments in a company used to process ordinary animal feed wheat sampling test found that these wheat contains herbicide ingredients seriously exceeded the standard The company is said to have put the common wheat into a warehouse that used to store a lot of pesticides for a while Berninger said samples of wheat contaminated with toxic chemicals were extracted from 72 tons of common wheat The wheat was later sold to an animal feed processing company He said that the current situation clearly shows that this matter has become a national problem Germany's Meiqian state agriculture minister bakhaus announced at a press conference in Berlin on the evening of the 12th that 500 agricultural enterprises in the state have been shut down In addition, wheat contaminated with toxic chemicals may also flow into animal feed processing enterprises in Brandenburg, which have also been temporarily closed At the end of May, some farms in eastern Germany found that the chicken feed contained nitroherbicide, and the chicken and eggs were polluted The German Ministry of Agriculture announced in early June that an ecological feed processing plant had been found to have been contaminated with carcinogenic herbicides in animal feed sold nationwide So far, more than 240000 chickens have been slaughtered in Germany, and more than 500000 have been affected, including some pigs and cattle This feed pollution event has become the biggest problem faced by German agriculture after "mad cow disease" (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: