When incineration solved a problem

WE would be grateful for the opportunity to clarify a claim made by Mary Fitzgerald in her letter (Irish Examiner, December 9).

Ms Fitzgerald referred to a situation where dioxin contamination of the Belgian food supply resulted in a loss of 500m in revenue and implied that the source of these dioxins was from the incineration of waste.

We wish to clarify that this contamination was as a result of inappropriate recycling of PCB oil. This oil was mixed with animal feed instead of being disposed of appropriately by incineration.