Contaminated beef will be recalled

BEEF from the three farms found to have been contaminated will be taken off the shelves, the European Commission has decided.

But the commission is awaiting further testing on cattle on the 38 farms that used the dioxin feed before alerting national authorities and consumers.

To date, preliminary tests were carried out on herds from just 11 farms. On three of these, the levels of contamination exceeded the permitted amounts.