In Brief... EU Orders Belgian Poultry Destroyed

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AP-Belgium's dioxin food poisoning scandal spread further when the government issued a slaughter ban on pigs, fearful that many of them may also have been infected by the same contaminated animal feed.

In an earlier food scandal, the EU Commission imposed a worldwide export ban on British beef in 1996. The ban came after the British government acknowledged a possible link between a brain-destroying cattle ailment called bovine spongiform encephalopathy and the equally fatal human illness, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.

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