Germany acts over dioxin

GERMANY’S agriculture minister is vowing tough legal action against those responsible for contaminating livestock feed with dioxin-laced fat.

Germany acts over dioxin

Ilse Aigner told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag the case needs to be thoroughly investigated, adding what appears to be “criminal energy coupled with alarming unscrupulousness” needs a severe response.

German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in eggs and some chicken meat. Authorities have frozen sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,000 farms.

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