Ireland in more trouble over Dioxin in the food they export

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


Area: Romania, , Statewide,


"It was confirmed that some 40 tons of pork reached a warehouse in Cluj, coming from a France-based company," Czutak said, adding that they were distributed to 37 companies in 24 counties, more than half of the country's 41 counties. The ANSVSA official also confirmed that 74 tons of pork exported from Hungary to Romania through four companies to the counties of Prahova, Valcea and to the capital city of Bucharest are contaminated with dioxin and originate in Ireland, coming to Romania via Poland. The 3.6 tons shipped to a Bucharest warehouse by a Belgian company were part of a larger lot of some 20 tons. ANSVSA is performing checks with all warehouses in the counties where the dioxin contaminated pork arrived and the identified pork will be destroyed. Czutak said that a considerable amount of the pork already reached the food retailer chains of Bucharest as well as nearby counties of Ilfov and Teleorman. The European Commission announced on Monday that 11 EU member states had imported pork from Ireland with a dioxin content higher than the upper accepted limit, but Romania was not among them. However, the EC on Tuesday notified Romania that it had received a pork shipment from a Belgian company that directly imported from Ireland 3.6 tons of dioxin-contaminated pork and the merchandise reached a deep-freeze warehouse in Bucharest. hThe Irish government on Saturday ordered the recall of contaminated pork products made since Sept. 1, some of which reached France and Belgium. The Irish authorities advised the destruction of all such products. Germany, Britain and Sweden also went on alert, recommending the withdrawal of these products from shelves.
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not good, not good at all

[Blaze Diem]

1. The lowdown on DIOXIN....Its killing us .

What Is Dioxin?

Dioxin is the name generally given to a class of super-toxic chemicals, the chlorinated dioxins and furans, formed as a by-product of the manufacture, molding, or burning of organic chemicals and plastics that contain chlorine. It is the nastiest, most toxic man-made organic chemical; its toxicity is second only to radioactive waste. Dioxin made headlines several years ago at places such as Love Canal, where hundreds of families needed to abandon their homes due to dioxin contamination, and Times Beach, Missouri, a town that was abandoned as a result of dioxin.
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Dioxin - An Unprecedented Threat

We now know that dioxin exhibits serious health effects when it reaches as little as a few parts per trillion in your body fat. Dioxin is a powerful hormone disrupting chemical. By binding to a cell's hormone receptor, it literally modifies the functioning and genetic mechanism of the cell, causing a wide range of effects, from cancer to reduced immunity to nervous system disorders to miscarriages and birth deformity. Because it literally changes the functioning of your cells, the effects can be very obvious or very subtle. Because it changes gene functions, it can cause so-called genetic diseases to appear, and can interfere with child development. There is no "threshold" dose - the tiniest amount can cause damage, and our bodies have no defense against it.

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Several towns and cities have become contaminated as a result of chemical spills or manufacturing emissions, some that needed to be evacuated. Love Canal (Niagara Falls, N.Y), Seveso (Italy), Times Beach (Missouri), Pensacola (Florida), and the entire city of Midland, Michigan have high concentrations of dioxin.

Bizarre health effects, such as cancer, spina bifida (split spine) and other birth defects, autism, liver disease, endometriosis, reduced immunity, chronic fatigue syndrome, psychological disorders, and other nerve and blood disorders have been reported.
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http://www.cqs.com/edioxin.htm

[ensho]

3. thanks for posting this info - which prompts me to ask

if both dioxin and man made hormones are in a body - what happens? because that is what is happening in a lot of human bodies around the earth.

(its in all mammals)

[DCKit]

5. My Mom was looking to buy some land near Midland, MI back in the early '80's...

and had the well tested. BIG dioxin problem. Personally, I knew something was going on when I noticed that everyone I met there had freakishly huge top front teeth.

Apparently Dow Chemical didn't believe their waste would ever leak out of the underground salt domes where they dumped it. Oops.

[Blaze Diem]

2. k & r ..........for knowledge

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[appal_jack]

4. Source of Dioxin = Contaminated Feed

More from the OP's link (which is an excellent site BTW):

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=19507&lang=eng

"The contaminated feed was supplied to 10 Irish farms which supply roughly 10 per cent of Ireland's pigs. Nine farms in Northern Ireland have also used the contaminated feed. Rhodri Evans, FSAI chief toxicology specialist, told AFP that the source of the contamination was "possibly" oil at a plant in Ireland that used recycled bread and dough to make pig feed."

-app

edit to add exact link for event update.

[DCKit]

6. I use yeast, the Irish use dioxin?

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Oil used as fuel

The Irish Republic's environmental protection agency and Irish police are investigating the possibility that the feed was tainted with dioxins from smuggled fuel oil.

The fuel is converted from agricultural green diesel to red diesel used in motor vehicles and for heating oil. This process, pioneered by the IRA's south Armagh Brigade during the Troubles, produces dioxins as a waste byproduct.

Police are acting on intelligence that the oil used to heat the animal feed in a processing plant in the republic was sourced from Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland and may have been smuggled fuel. However, they are also exploring an alternative theory that the oil was legitimately sourced but was tainted by being transported in a tanker contaminated with dioxins.

The oil that is the focus of the investigation was used in a burner at the Millstream Recycling plant in Co Carlow to convert food products into animal feed. This plant is being investigated by police as the suspected source of the contaminated feed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/11/ireland-pork-smuggled-fuel

[hedgehog]

7. When did Irish agriculture get so centralized? Are there the same factory farms

with huge manure lagoons in Ireland as in America?

[supernova]

8. So, the dioxin was in the soil that grew the wheat that made the bread?

that fed the pigs that the farmers sold.

And this is the house that Jack built!

:yoiks:

[ensho]

10. kick well said

nt