date:Jun 22, 2012
The contamination has so farbeen detected at just one farm in the Emsland area of Lower Saxony.The farm has been closed and its 12,000 chickens have beenquarantined.
Authorities have established so far that around 268,000 eggs were distributed from the farm in question to seven German states including Lower Saxony. There have been no reports to date of the dioxin-contaminated eggs in any other countries.
In January 2011, authorities in Germany issued a European Union-wide health alert after