Half of the pig farms in the Netherlands use hormone containing feed
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Last Update: 2002-07-19
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Introduction: thousands of farms in the European continent, including half of the pig farms in the Netherlands, have banned the use of growth hormone in their feed, Dutch officials announced Tuesday Herrad Westhoff, a spokesman for the Dutch Ministry of agriculture, said that 73 feed producers use raw materials containing hormones and have supplied about 7000 farms across the country Westhoff said the incident was coming to an end, but they were not sure if all farms using hormone containing feed had been found The Dutch government announced last week that the number of farms using hormone feed in the Netherlands has increased from dozens to 355 But they assured the EU that the situation was under control In the afternoon, EU veterinary experts had been called to Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the severity of the disaster It is reported that 11 of the 15 EU member states have also witnessed this kind of incident since hormone containing feed was found on three farms in the Netherlands, the world's third largest pork exporter, last month In addition to the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium were also severely affected, while Sweden, Denmark and France were only slightly affected (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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