(Reuters) - The eggs from a farm hit by a warning of dioxin contamination in forage have entered Britain in processed products for human consumption, said Thursday the executive arm of the European Union.
The German authorities said this week that up to 3,000 tons of animal feed contaminated with dioxin were sent More than 1,000 poultry and hog farms, and that the eggs of some of these farms were exported to Holland for processing.
"These eggs were then processed and exported to Britain (...) as a shipment of 14 tons of pasteurized products for consumption," said health spokesman of the European Commission, Frederic Vincent, a conference in Brussels.
"If you went to mayonnaise, cakes, do not know. So we'll probably see this with the British authorities and see what was done with the eggs," he added.
Vincent noted that, although processed eggs had come from a farm in Germany that was distributed contaminated animal feed, there was no evidence on whether the eggs contained dioxin.
However, other eggs produced in the affected farms in Germany containing up to five times the legal limit of dioxins from the EU, said Vincent.
"The levels do not pose a risk to human health.'d Have to eat many eggs and many processed products with these eggs that really represents a threat to human health," he added.
Dioxins are toxins formed by the waste burning and other industrial processes, and has been shown that elevated cancer rates and affect pregnant women.
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