Recent Food Scares
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I am currently resident in Belgium, and I am not following the news with much devotion at the moment, but so far in 2002 I have noticed the following 'food scares' :-
date
problem
action
  Contamination of Chinese honey with antibiotic chloramphenicol http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/enforcement/alerts/chinhoneyfhw most Chinese honey taken off sale
  Irish fish oils contaminated with dioxin, furans and PCB http://www.fsai.ie/press_releases/130302.htm none
  Belgian chickens - dioxin levels high http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_358000/358634.stm many withdrawn from sale throughout Europe
13th June 2002 7.2% of vegetable food samples tested in Belgium exceeded the MRL (Maximum Resue Limits) set by the EU, some with more than one pesticide. The Bulletin, Brussels from http://www.fst.rdg.ac.uk/foodlaw/news/eu-02047.htm  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D1B6.htm is a refernece for this
http://www.eurunion.org/magazine/9909/food.htm is an article in a European Union magazine

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