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Germany, without eggs health alert
They have closed thousands of poultry after detecting contaminated feed
RAMIRO VILLAPADIERNA / BERLIN
Day 05/01/2011 - 4:56 p.m.
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EDUARDO MANZANO
Whoever rosc?n Kings in Germany will have to be without eggs this year, before the health alert and the closure of thousands of poultry farms. In the beginning, it appears that a feed business would have mixed industrial oils in its production.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture has detected a toxic substance feared in poultry feed a large number of farms, especially in the states of Lower Saxony and Rhineland and Westphalia . Pig meats are also suspect.
"At the moment we stop everything. The protection of the consumer comes first," announced in Hanover Regional Ministry spokesman Health. The European Commission has requested information to Berlin, after health authorities Germanic activate the community alert system on 28 December.
Poultry and pig meat
"We have to check if other countries are affected too , "says the spokesman for Health and Consumers of the European Union, Frederic Vincent. According to the EU authorities, there are five states affected by this severe case of food contamination but is still considered to pose restrictions precipitated German exports.
Last week were detected high levels of dioxin in food and the authorities have warned that hundreds of thousands of eggs and poultry meat, even pork may be contaminated . The contamination has been found in a feed manufacturing company of Schleswig-Holstein.
Harles & Jentzsch has admitted accidentally mixed industrial oils , lubricants employed, as stated by the spokesman for the Federal Office for Consumer Protection in the newspaper Westfalen Blatt. Fat from a Dutch company are not suitable for the food chain and have contaminated 527 tonnes of animal feed.
Only in the federal state of Lower Saxony in the west, about 1,000 farms were closed and businesses breeders of chickens, turkeys, chickens and pigs. In North Rhine-Westphalia 8000 have been culled hens from a farm that has been able to distribute and market about 120,000 contaminated eggs.
In Saxony, several factories have been isolated and neighboring Thuringia have been detected 52 tons of feed contaminated with dioxin in a pig farm. Any animals on them had already been sold, regretted the ministry of this region.
Possible use "malicious"
According to available information, dioxin comes from a producer of biodiesel, palm, soybean, rapeseed oil and the town of Emden, Lower Saxony. He sold the fatty acid feed producer Harles & Jentzsch, Schleswig-Holstein.
Responsible for Agriculture of North Rhine has suggested a possible use "malicious or negligent" of unauthorized substances in the food chain. From the German Farmers Federation is demanding that Harles & Jentzsch which bear the costs and losses that are caused because of this gross negligence.
Corresponding regional prosecution offices are considering the case, while experts continue to practice food analysis and contaminated animals. On Sunday, hundreds of tests performed in Harles & Jentzsch but the results will not be ready until early next week.
Spanish-English translation
Germany, without eggs health alert
They have closed thousands of poultry after detecting contaminated feed
RAMIRO VILLAPADIERNA / BERLIN
Day 05/01/2011 - 4:56 p.m.
0 COMMENTS
EDUARDO MANZANO
Whoever rosc?n Kings in Germany will have to be without eggs this year, before the health alert and the closure of thousands of poultry farms. In the beginning, it appears that a feed business would have mixed industrial oils in its production.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture has detected a toxic substance feared in poultry feed a large number of farms, especially in the states of Lower Saxony and Rhineland and Westphalia . Pig meats are also suspect.
"At the moment we stop everything. The protection of the consumer comes first," announced in Hanover Regional Ministry spokesman Health. The European Commission has requested information to Berlin, after health authorities Germanic activate the community alert system on 28 December.
Poultry and pig meat
"We have to check if other countries are affected too , "says the spokesman for Health and Consumers of the European Union, Frederic Vincent. According to the EU authorities, there are five states affected by this severe case of food contamination but is still considered to pose restrictions precipitated German exports.
Last week were detected high levels of dioxin in food and the authorities have warned that hundreds of thousands of eggs and poultry meat, even pork may be contaminated . The contamination has been found in a feed manufacturing company of Schleswig-Holstein.
Harles & Jentzsch has admitted accidentally mixed industrial oils , lubricants employed, as stated by the spokesman for the Federal Office for Consumer Protection in the newspaper Westfalen Blatt. Fat from a Dutch company are not suitable for the food chain and have contaminated 527 tonnes of animal feed.
Only in the federal state of Lower Saxony in the west, about 1,000 farms were closed and businesses breeders of chickens, turkeys, chickens and pigs. In North Rhine-Westphalia 8000 have been culled hens from a farm that has been able to distribute and market about 120,000 contaminated eggs.
In Saxony, several factories have been isolated and neighboring Thuringia have been detected 52 tons of feed contaminated with dioxin in a pig farm. Any animals on them had already been sold, regretted the ministry of this region.
Possible use "malicious"
According to available information, dioxin comes from a producer of biodiesel, palm, soybean, rapeseed oil and the town of Emden, Lower Saxony. He sold the fatty acid feed producer Harles & Jentzsch, Schleswig-Holstein.
Responsible for Agriculture of North Rhine has suggested a possible use "malicious or negligent" of unauthorized substances in the food chain. From the German Farmers Federation is demanding that Harles & Jentzsch which bear the costs and losses that are caused because of this gross negligence.
Corresponding regional prosecution offices are considering the case, while experts continue to practice food analysis and contaminated animals. On Sunday, hundreds of tests performed in Harles & Jentzsch but the results will not be ready until early next week.