"Serbia did not buy carcinogenic Croatian milk"

BELGRADE Agricultural Inspection chief Nenad Katanic says that samples of milk sold in Serbia are currently being analyzed to determine whether it contained aflatoxin. The results will be known "by Wednesday", according to him. "Serbia did not buy carcinogenic Croatian milk" Last week, Croatian authorities ordered several types of milk produced by that country's Vindija and Dukat dairies withdrawn from the market, due to contamination with aflatoxin - one of the most highly carcinogenic substances. The products were removed from the shelves in stores in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, but the authorities in Serbia said over the weekend that the dairies here did not buy contaminated milk from Croatia. Despite this, the inspection ordered extraordinary analyses to be carried out. According to Katanic, his inspectors took a wide variety of samples from domestic and imported milk and various producers and distributors of dairy products. Once the labs return the results, the public will learn about them, Katanic noted. But Goran Papovic, who heads Serbia's National Association of Consumers (NOBS), has announced that the watchdog will carry out an independent analysis of milk samples. In a statement for Tanjug, he asserted that trust was increasingly eroding in the Ministry of Agriculture - "who said that there was no aflatoxin or other cancerogenic substances in the milk, without offering any proof of when and in which laboratory the analysis was done" "The question is not whether we imported tetra paks (UHT bricks), but where the raw material came from," Papovic stated, and added that Dukat has its plants in Zagreb and Bjelovar in Croatia, Gradacac in Bosnia, Bitolj in Macedonia, and in Sombor in Serbia. (sxc.hu, stock) B92 Tanjug

"Serbia did not buy carcinogenic Croatian milk"

Last week, Croatian authorities ordered several types of milk produced by that country's Vindija and Dukat dairies withdrawn from the market, due to contamination with aflatoxin - one of the most highly carcinogenic substances.

The products were removed from the shelves in stores in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, but the authorities in Serbia said over the weekend that the dairies here did not buy contaminated milk from Croatia.

Despite this, the inspection ordered extraordinary analyses to be carried out. According to Katanić, his inspectors took a wide variety of samples from domestic and imported milk and various producers and distributors of dairy products.

Once the labs return the results, the public will learn about them, Katanić noted.

But Goran Papović, who heads Serbia's National Association of Consumers (NOBS), has announced that the watchdog will carry out an independent analysis of milk samples.

In a statement for Tanjug, he asserted that trust was increasingly eroding in the Ministry of Agriculture - "who said that there was no aflatoxin or other cancerogenic substances in the milk, without offering any proof of when and in which laboratory the analysis was done"

"The question is not whether we imported tetra paks (UHT bricks), but where the raw material came from," Papović stated, and added that Dukat has its plants in Zagreb and Bjelovar in Croatia, Gradačac in Bosnia, Bitolj in Macedonia, and in Sombor in Serbia.