UPDATE: UK: Detection of tainted milk delayed

By: just-food.com | 6 February 2009

The UK's Food Standards Agency has revealed that there was a four-week delay between the collection of milk samples that were found to be tainted with cancer-causing dioxins and their containment.

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The UK's Food Standards Agency has revealed that there was a four-week delay between the collection of milk samples that were found to be tainted with cancer-causing dioxins and their containment.

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