Roundup: Ireland "pork dioxin" shock wave in the United Kingdom

December 10, 2008

In the Irish government announced on the 6th of this year due to the dioxin-contaminated recalled on September 1 after the country produced all the pork products, "pork dioxin" a close neighbor of the shock wave in Ireland continued to shock the United Kingdom, so that regulators and food Industry nervous tension and anxiety.

Dioxin is not a A single kind of material, but the structure and nature are very similar to the general term for a class of organic compounds. In 1997, the World Health Organization, the International Center for Research on Cancer will be recognized as a carcinogen his.

Britain on the market about 10% of pork products from Britain and Ireland Northern Ireland. In the past three months, the United Kingdom, Ireland from imported 4462 tons of pork. UK Food Safety Authority confirmed that Britain and Ireland at the junction of the Northern Ireland area pig farms in Ireland did not buy feed mill production was the dioxin-contaminated feed, but the Northern Ireland have been imported pork and pork processing a number of these Meat products sold in the local.

In order to curb the "dioxin pork" against the British food safety has called for a ban on sales of Ireland and the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland produced pork products.

At the same time, food management also repeatedly stressed that the British people not to eat Ireland and Northern Ireland pork products, if there are such products on their own self-destruction or return to find sellers. But the British media that the UK market, a lot of pork products on the packaging only "from the European Union" message, there is no concrete indication from any EU country, and food management's proposal did not identify how to Ireland and Northern Ireland region Pork specific guidance. It is reported that many of Britain's supermarket business has been affected by dioxin contamination incident.

However, some dare to "top cow" business. Britain's biggest supermarket group Tesco 9 decided to continue sales of pork products from Ireland, as determined by the company's sales of pork products are contaminated with dioxin, the incident has nothing to do. For this type of "guarantee the security sources, the products were not sold dioxin-contaminated," the voice of the business, the British Food Safety Authority said the department is considering whether there is a need to amend the previous order issued by the ban.

Ireland institutions in the near future in a routine check and found that a dioxin-contaminated animal feed plant, after the feed manufacturers have sold 48 farms, including 10 pig farms and cattle. Due to the sale of cattle feed by dioxin in the lower back in Ireland, the operation was aimed at the destruction of the above-mentioned 10 pig farms in the pork product launch. At present, experts are involved in the case to focus on the feed mill and drying equipment exhaust pipe inspection because of diesel exhaust dryer in the dioxin.

According to British media reports, so far there are more than 20 countries declared a moratorium on the import of pork products in Ireland and the feed, and will require businesses may be related to the pollution incident related to all pork products on the shelves removed.

For public panic, the British food management pointed out that the only long-term consumption of large amount of dioxin-contaminated pork, health will it be possible to have an adverse effect on the current inflow of Britain's Irish pork products has not yet pose a serious consumer British Threat.