The German Ministry of Agriculture announced that it had found the source of animal feed pollution
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Last Update: 2002-06-03
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Introduction: German agriculture minister qunast announced at a press conference held in Berlin on the 1st that an ecological feed processing plant in Lower Saxony, Germany, sold animal feed to the whole country containing the pollution of carcinogenic herbicides The pollution source has been found, and said: "at present, there is no evidence that there are other pollution sources." At the end of May, some farms in eastern Germany found that the feed of chickens contained nitroherbicide, and the chicken and eggs were polluted, which led to the slaughter of nearly 100000 chickens and the pollution of nearly 100 farms Some supermarket chains in Germany have removed food from the counter Czech, Slovak and other countries have banned the import of German poultry The European Union has also sent a letter to Germany to find out the quantity of contaminated meat and eggs and whether they have been exported to other member countries According to the current situation, the feed produced by the ecological feed processing plant in Lower Saxony is contaminated with the herbicide, which has been banned in Germany, in the warehouse of a seed company in the eastern state of meqian Last October, the seed company rented the warehouse in malchin, near new Brandenburg, from private operators to store the ecological wheat that was later processed into feed However, the warehouse used to store large quantities of pesticides during the eastern German period At a press conference, bakhaus, the former state agriculture minister, announced that the seed company and its branches in other German states suspected of causing the feed pollution case had been immediately seized Prosecutors are investigating the incident to find out how the weed remover got into the ecological wheat Lower Saxony agriculture minister Bartles said authorities should focus on investigating those responsible for the scandal after finding out the cause (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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