With more than 1,000 chicken farms across Germany banned from selling eggs and poultry and over 8,000 chickens culled after cancer-causing dioxin was found in animal feed, the European Union wants Germany to reveal the full extent of the dioxin scandal.
A spokesperson for EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli, on Tuesday demanded to know whether contaminated eggs or meat had been exported to other member states. It was, however, "too early" to consider a ban on exports, he added.
The poisonous chemical dioxin was discovered in eggs and poultry last week and is believed to have stemmed from animal feed contaminated with industrial fats.
Authorities in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony Anhalt said that at least 55 tons of suspect feed out of a total of 527 tons had already been fed to chickens and that more than 100,000 contaminated eggs had gone to market.
Read the full story and related articles at Deutsche Welle.
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