Lithuania announces a ban on the import of German meat products
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Last Update: 2002-06-01
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Lead: it is reported that the Lithuanian government announced a total ban on the import of German livestock, poultry and other meat products on the 29th after discovering that some poultry meat contains residues of herbicides that can cause cancer in Germany Lithuanian authorities said in a statement on the same day that they had received information from the German livestock quarantine department that they had found in some foods and domestic animals the carcinogenic herbicide "herbicidal ether", which was banned in 1981, which may be caused by the pollution of wheat used as feed by herbicidal ether Therefore, the Lithuanian government issued a ban on all meat and other animal products from Germany According to the report, the Agricultural Department of Lower Saxony said on the 27th that the feed of more than 100 farms may have been polluted by herbicidal ether German federal government agencies have launched an investigation to find companies selling the contaminated feed.
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