Germany unveils feed safety plan as dioxin scare widens

摘要

Germany announced on 14 January plans to tighten controls over animal feed production, as it emerged that dioxin-tainted pigmeat may have been exported to Poland and the Czech Republic."We will significantly increase safety standards and sharpen obligations to notify authorities and the duty to inspect," agriculture minister Use Aigner said at a press conference in Berlin. "Consumers expect this and we are going to do it," she added.Alongside compulsory separation of fats for industrial and feed use, the ten-point plan also strengthens registration and reporting rules and requires companies to take out extra insurance.