Germany acts over dioxin

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

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.