AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Germany has slaughtered pigs from five farms for testing and hundreds of farms in Belgium and the Netherlands remained quarantined on Wednesday as authorities probed levels of the carcinogen dioxin in pig meat.
Dutch and Belgian food officials said that meat from contaminated farms was sold in shops in the last two months but they ruled out any serious risk to public health, although conclusive meat tests results are not due until later in the week or next week.
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