Agriculture ministers to demand investigation and tighter regulations

EU AGRICULTURE ministers are expected to call for an investigation and for laws to be tightened following the discovery of dioxins in Irish pork.

Strict rules to prevent the potentially dangerous dioxins getting into the human food chain, especially through animal feed, were drawn up nine years ago when the chemicals were discovered in Belgian chickens.

At that time all goods throughout the world that could contain traces of chicken or eggs from Belgium were withdrawn and many Belgian firms went out of business.