The original source of the infection was probably infected cows or bone meal feed imported from Europe.
In June, the commission told E.U. governments that failure to approve the varieties could lead to a repeat of last year's disruption to animal feed imports.
Animal feed imported from South America for the UK's meat and dairy industry is causing the destruction of tropical rainforests and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study reveals.
In another sign of concern in Europe about events in Japan, E.U. food experts late on Thursday ordered random checks on food and animal feed imports for radioactive contamination.
Since 1997, Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, has sent numerous letters to Agriculture Department officials warning that the American testing was "flawed in both design and execution," and that native brain disease, not necessarily caused by feed imported from Britain in the 1980's, "may be hiding among the 'downer cow' population".
PAGE A14 MORE TAINTED FOOD FROM CHINA Hong Kong inspectors found fish feed imported from China contaminated with high levels of melamine, a toxic chemical that has recently been blamed for tainting Chinese-produced milk, eggs and other foods, and sickening more than 50,000 children in China.
It has a Twitter-like interface enabling feed imports/ lifestreaming, bookmarklets, you name it.
We first quantified the amount of feed imported to livestock systems to determine the potential for local feed production.
The outbreak apparently originated on a pig farm in Newcastle, England, probably from infected animal feed imported from Asia.
Of these, 4 incidents relate to GM contaminated basmati rice either in, or imported from, India and Pakistan and 1 relates to GM contaminated animal feed imported from the USA.
