Article: AGRICULTURE: BELGIUM ASKED TO EXPLAIN CONTAMINATED CHICKENS.

Franz Fischler said "precautionary steps might be needed" and did not rule out the possibility of an EU-wide ban on Belgian eggs and chickens. The European Commissioner said that seriousness of the incident should not be underestimated, an incident that concerned solely the Belgian authorities to start with. "We have to wait for the precise findings of the research carried out at the behest of the Belgian Ministry of Agriculture, but there might be one or two lessons to draw on a European scale", according to the French Farm Minister, Jean Glavany, who said that intensive farming methods cast a shadow over procedures for controlling this "blasted meat and bone meal".The ...

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