Tainted feed still being found on German farms

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Subject:  Tainted feed still being found on German farms
Date:     Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:42:28 -0400
From:      Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

Tainted feed still being found on German farms

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GERMANY: June 18, 2002

HAMBURG - A German state Agriculture Minister said yesterday that eight of 254 animal feed samples taken from non-organic farms in his state had tested positive for the banned carcinogenic herbicide nitrofen.
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At the end of last month, Germany was shaken by the discovery that animal feed tainted with the cancer-causing herbicide nitrofen, banned in the European Union, had been delivered to hundreds of organic and non-organic farms.
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Farms have been sealed off and ordered not to sell their products. Five were allowed to resume normal working yesterday and 298 remain sealed off. But Backhaus said he expected more would be allowed to sell their products in coming days.

Officials have tracked the source of the contaminated chicken feed to a grain store in Malchin in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which in the days of communist East Germany was used to hold pesticides and weedkiller, residues of which had tainted wheat stored there.
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German officials said nitrofen is only a serious danger to health when consumed over long periods.

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE 

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