1In March, 1997, the British government announced that sick beef with mad cow disease may lead to a new type of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In the next few months, beef sales in many EU countries dropped by 70%. Britain slaughtered more than 4 million cows, with a loss of up to 3 billion pounds. In 200 1 year, mad cow disease occurred in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and other countries, and the sales of beef and its products in EU countries suffered heavy losses.
During the period of 1999, Belgian vickers feed company sold feed contaminated by dioxin to thousands of farms and poultry companies in Europe, which caused serious pollution of fresh meat and deep-processed meat products in the European Union, and led to the prohibition of importing meat products from the European Union in many countries including the United States. In the same year, hundreds of children in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France became seriously unwell after drinking contaminated canned Coca-Cola, and the governments of the four countries ordered all Coca-Cola on sale to be removed from the shelves.
In 2006, the cleaning equipment sewage of Cadbury, a world-famous chocolate food company, polluted chocolate, resulting in 42 people being poisoned by eating chocolate contaminated by salmonella. The company urgently recalled millions of chocolates in the European Union and around the world.
In September 2008, France Baoyile Infant Dairy Company announced the recall of a batch of "anti-vomiting and digestive" milk powder for infants, which was suspected to be contaminated by Salmonella.
From June 5438 to February 2008, the Irish government reported that during a routine inspection, the Irish Food Safety Bureau found that the slaughtered pigs were contaminated with dioxins, and the dioxin content was 80 to 200 times higher than the upper limit of the EU safety standards. Some pork may have been exported to 25 countries, including the United States and China.
From 2008 to 2009, a peanut food processing factory in the United States was contaminated by Salmonella, resulting in the death of 9 consumers and at least 765,438+04 people getting sick. This pollution incident triggered the largest food recall in American history. In 2009, the involved company, American Peanut Company, permanently stopped production and filed for bankruptcy protection.
August 20 13, the concentrated whey protein powder produced by the factory of New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra was detected to contain botulinum toxin. Although New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries quickly announced that after repeated re-inspection, Clostridium was not found to contain Botox, which generally would not cause food safety problems, this incident still led to the removal and recall of infant formula milk powder and beverages based on these whey protein powders in overseas markets.
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