Alert on dichlorvos in Argentine sorghum

Dutch authorities have confirmed that a shipment of sorghum from Argentina destined for use as animal feed was contaminated with the pesticide dichlorvos, an EU-wide alert showed. It is possible the tainted animal feed has already been distributed to the market in both the Netherlands and Germany, the European Union's rapid alert system for food and feed showed.

According to sources the tainted sorghum had been delivered to a feed factory in Germany, where the insecticide had been detected during an in-house check. The said manufacturer had made a formal complaint to the provider for not complying with product quality. The merchant has traced this batch to a sorghum ship, which contained 30,000 tonnes, of Argentine origin which had been unloaded in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Read more ...

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