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Cyprus Mail: Press Review in English, 99-06-12

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From: The Cyprus Mail at <http://www.cynews.com/>


Saturday, June 12, 1999

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/ Government seeking legal advice on dioxin list

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THE DIOXIN food scare continued to dominate the front pages yesterday.

_Philelephtheros

_ reported that food importers were planning to sue the Health Service if it went ahead with publicising the brand names of Belgian products thought to be contaminated with the carcinogenic chemicals.

The list was to be published the following day, the paper reported, but the authorities were getting cold feet after receiving warnings from lawyers representing major importers.

The Health Service was to seek the advice of Attorney-general Alecos Markides before going ahead with publicising the list, the paper stated.

The paper said Markides' position was that the list could only include products known undoubtedly to contain dioxin.

_Politis

_ stated the list was to be publicised today and focused on the Belgian Prime Minister admitting that his country carried out no checks whatsoever on foods produced by local farmers.

The European Commission was meanwhile planning to take Belgium to the European Court as soon as enough evidence concerning the dioxin contamination had been gathered, the paper added.

_Haravghi

_ reported that the government was about to conduct dioxin tests on locally produced products, for fear that contaminated ingredients imported from Belgium might have been used in production.

_Simerini

_ reported that the Cyprus state lab had never carried out any analyses for dioxin in imported foods. A state lab representative told the House Health Committee that carrying out such tests was costly and required specialised equipment. Samples of suspect foodstuffs would thus be sent abroad for testing, the committee heard.

_Machi

_ reported that a "huge" number of products was expected to be on the list of dioxin contaminated products. The chocolates on the list alone would number about 60, the paper reported.

_Alithia

_ quoted Health Minister Christos Solomis as saying the list would be released to satisfy consumers' demands but this is no way constituted an admission of negligence on the part of authorities. All steps necessary for the protection of consumers had been taken, the minister was reported as saying.

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