22.05.2012

German authorities said dioxin had been found in higher than permitted levels in eggs from a German farm following a discovery in five other farms in April.
Dioxin has been found on a poultry farm near Borken in the northern German state of North Rhine Westphalia. Farms in the same state had been the source of the discoveries in April.

The farm has been sealed off and the eggs they produced were being traced and withdrawn from sale while the source was being sought, the ministry said. The dioxin was discovered by the farm's own safety checks, the ministry added.

In January 2011, an EU-wide health alert started when German officials said animal feed tainted with highly-poisonous dioxin had been fed to hens and pigs, contaminating eggs, poultry meat and pork at the affected farms.