BRUSSELS, Jan. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Despite the widening dioxin worries in the Belgian livestock fodder industry, no contaminated meat of poultry will be removed from supermarket shelves.
"There is no acute danger for public health," Pascal Houbaert, a spokesman for the Federal Food Agency, told local press.
The agency decided against recalling food products on advice from a committee of experts. "The contamination is too limited. There is no immediate danger for the consumer," the spokesman added.
However, measures will be imposed against farms and abattoirs. A blockade has been imposed on some 400 companies and farms until further details emerge over the presence of contaminated fodder.
The firms will temporarily be banned from sending products intothe food chain. Further analyses will determine whether the restrictions can be lifted.
Similar restrictions were imposed on almost 100 companies last week when news of the dioxin contamination broke. The original source was traced back to the firm Profat, which had been supplied by the company PB Gelatins. Enditem
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