Tests show consignment of imported fish meal free from contamination

The chief veterinarian said yesterday that final tests on fish meal thought to be tainted with chloramphenicol showed no traces of the potent anti biotic. "We've finished the final tests and the results were the same as in initial tests - the products are safe," Piotr Kolodziej told Reuters. Poland imported from Germany 200 tons of fish meal suspected of containing ch loramphenicol, a drug restricted to the treatment of serious infections because it risks causing a potentially lethal form of anemia. Local in spectors tracked down the whole consignment, finding farms and feed mills that bought 140 tons and seizing the remaining 60 tons from warehouses. (Reuters)