The Cyprus Agriculture Ministry has seized two shipments of animal feed from Argentina and
Bulgaria after they were found to be contaminated with Salmonella and
aflatoxins.
The Bulgaria shipment had around 1,700 metric tons
of corn animal feed in which aflatoxins were detected, and the
Argentina shipment had 7,536 metric tons of soybean animal feed from Argentina
in which Salmonella was detected. "Under no circumstances have [the
shipments] been used by our farmers and [they] have not entered the food chain,”
said Androulla Georgiou, head of the Agriculture Department. “The small
quantities, and I want to stress this, that went to the mills and farmers, have
been seized and have gone back to the importers’ warehouses which have been
sealed."
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