Juergen Baetz
Associated Press
BERLIN — Germany’s dioxin-tainted food scandal widened Saturday, as authorities banned another 934 farms from selling eggs, poultry and pork after finding out that one company had hidden its deliveries of contaminated livestock feed.
Prosecutors in Lower Saxony state have opened an investigation after finding out about the tainted feed deliveries to those farms, Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said.
“This is a scandal within the scandal,” she said.
Lower Saxony’s agriculture ministry said products from those farms have likely been sold over the past ten days, “mostly eggs.” But it reiterated its assessment that “consumption of these goods does not pose a health risk” given the low contamination level.
The scandal broke last week when investigators found excessive levels of dioxin in eggs and chickens, leading authorities to slaughter hundreds of animals and freeze sales from more than 5,000 farms. Excessive dioxin levels were also found in some pork.
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