"Serbia did not buy carcinogenic Croatian milk"

Why we would buy any agricultural product from Croatia is beyond me. Serbia has absolutely wonderful produce, all essentially organic. Lets keep it that way and not let the GM idiots ruin it.

Why we would buy any agricultural product from Croatia is beyond me. Serbia has absolutely wonderful produce, all essentially organic. Lets keep it that way and not let the GM idiots ruin it.
(Wally, 11 February 2013 11:33)

Unfortunately, due to the selling off of huge tracts of state-owned pasture land to the likes of Miskovic and Kostic, Serbia can no longer produce enough milk for domestic consumption, hence the carcinogenic imports.

What, we don't have cows in Serbia?

There is a lot of reasons to worry.

More details here:

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatia-withdraws-dangerous-milk

At first, it looks fairly harmless:

"... after a scientific analysis in Vienna at the weekend showed that the amount of aflatoxin M1 in the milk produced by Croatian dairies Dukat and Vindija was 0.006 percent, higher than the legally permitted 0.005 per cent."

However, it is not because:

"The companies said they believed that aflotoxin M1 got into the milk through concentrated animal food.

Aflatoxins are produced by mould and can harm human and animal health if they enter the food chain in significant enough concentrations."

In other words the (probably imported) foodstuff the cows did eat had mold and what mold produces went to the milk. Croatia has probably not much to do with it, maybe the farmers did buy contaminated food because they did not know the potential dangers but it was offered to them - illegally - with a significant discount. The greed is responsible for that crime.

The greed is responsible for that crime.
(Ataman, 11 February 2013 18:31)

Crime? "Crime?" Well yes it's crime if you sell it..

Otherwise our gardens and homes are full of Aspergillus kinds and we feed our children with Aflatoxin which we produce without even knowing that.

I bet two thirds of Croatia population will not consume milk those days but they will eat corn, wheat, rice, nuts and so on. About decade ago when Belgium dioxin chickens broke out no one was eating chicken but they were carefully washing their homes with Chlorine., consuming 1000 times "chicken dose" dioxin in single day.

Aflatoxin is everywhere, we live (or die) with it long time now and most of us can do nothing about it.

Theoretical 365 urine or 12 blood serum exposure checks a year will reveal that we are contaminated with Aflatoxin on daily basis, sometimes severely. Very few of those (if any) exposures will happen while consuming milk or milk products.

THANKS to all our governments which are basically working for pharmaceutical industries for "early" alarm about Aflatoxin in milk, now we're safe :)

Why we would buy any agricultural product from Croatia is beyond me. Serbia has absolutely wonderful produce, all essentially organic. Lets keep it that way and not let the GM idiots ruin it.

What, we don't have cows in Serbia?

Why we would buy any agricultural product from Croatia is beyond me. Serbia has absolutely wonderful produce, all essentially organic. Lets keep it that way and not let the GM idiots ruin it.
(Wally, 11 February 2013 11:33)

Unfortunately, due to the selling off of huge tracts of state-owned pasture land to the likes of Miskovic and Kostic, Serbia can no longer produce enough milk for domestic consumption, hence the carcinogenic imports.

There is a lot of reasons to worry.

More details here:

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatia-withdraws-dangerous-milk

At first, it looks fairly harmless:

"... after a scientific analysis in Vienna at the weekend showed that the amount of aflatoxin M1 in the milk produced by Croatian dairies Dukat and Vindija was 0.006 percent, higher than the legally permitted 0.005 per cent."

However, it is not because:

"The companies said they believed that aflotoxin M1 got into the milk through concentrated animal food.

Aflatoxins are produced by mould and can harm human and animal health if they enter the food chain in significant enough concentrations."

In other words the (probably imported) foodstuff the cows did eat had mold and what mold produces went to the milk. Croatia has probably not much to do with it, maybe the farmers did buy contaminated food because they did not know the potential dangers but it was offered to them - illegally - with a significant discount. The greed is responsible for that crime.

The greed is responsible for that crime.
(Ataman, 11 February 2013 18:31)

Crime? "Crime?" Well yes it's crime if you sell it..

Otherwise our gardens and homes are full of Aspergillus kinds and we feed our children with Aflatoxin which we produce without even knowing that.

I bet two thirds of Croatia population will not consume milk those days but they will eat corn, wheat, rice, nuts and so on. About decade ago when Belgium dioxin chickens broke out no one was eating chicken but they were carefully washing their homes with Chlorine., consuming 1000 times "chicken dose" dioxin in single day.

Aflatoxin is everywhere, we live (or die) with it long time now and most of us can do nothing about it.

Theoretical 365 urine or 12 blood serum exposure checks a year will reveal that we are contaminated with Aflatoxin on daily basis, sometimes severely. Very few of those (if any) exposures will happen while consuming milk or milk products.

THANKS to all our governments which are basically working for pharmaceutical industries for "early" alarm about Aflatoxin in milk, now we're safe :)