Balkan States to Step Up Food Control on Aflatoxin Scare
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Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia agreed to increase quality control of cattle feed and milk to try to reduce levels of aflatoxin appearing in food products from fungus-infected corn.
Croatia, set to join the European Union in July, offered its European Union-approved facilities for testing samples, as the region deals with the consequences of 2012 drought that caused fungal contamination in corn, Serbia’s government said in an e-mailed statement after agriculture ministers met in Belgrade today. The fungi produce the carcinogenic aflatoxin.