Submitted by Aspergillus Administrator on 3 April 2013
The dairy producer Danone has withdrawn several products from the market in Romania after they suspected they could be contaminated with aflatoxins toxic carcinogenic substances. they also blocked 75 tonnes of products after they were found to contain these contaminants delivered from one of their suppliers.
“Milk containing carcinogenic aflatoxins, some imported from Hungary and the rest processed in Romania, has been identified and removed from the market”…”the products which Danone asked to be withdrawn are Musli Yoghurt, sour cream and natural yoghurt.”
Quoted from the original article on romania-insider.com
The discovery was due to testing across the food supply industry and despite this news scaring off Romanians from the products, the food safety authority has stressed that the products on shop shelves are safe for consumption.
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