Beef import ban unrealistic

FARMERS protesting against lack of control over non-EU meat imports have been boosted by the findings of the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research.

In EU Agriculture Commissioner Fischer Boel’s home country, they have found that nine out of 10 Danes suffering from multi-antibiotic resistant bacterial infections got them from foreign meat.

The institute’s researchers said bacteria levels could be up to seven times more resistant to antibiotics than those found in Danish meat products.