Category: News
Date: 14.06.2006
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大象传媒 TWO's Newsnight has obtained a leaked report from Europe's Food Safety Authority on
the level of salmonella contamination in commercial poultry units across Europe.
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It shows that while British farms are doing well with only eight per cent showing
contamination with the most dangerous strain of salmonella, other countries have
far higher levels.
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In this, the first survey of its kind, the Czech Republic, Poland and Spain are
revealed to have the highest level of contamination (Czech Republic 62%, Poland
55%, Spain 51%).
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Although 85 per cent of the eggs we eat in Britain are produced here, the remainder are
imported from Europe according to industry body the British Egg Industry Council.
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Of those imported an informed estimate is that the vast majority come
from Spain.
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The British Egg Industry Council says that unless standards are improved some EU
countries should be banned from exporting eggs to this country.
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