BANNED toxic chemicals that can cause cancer are sneaking into food more
often and at higher levels than anyone suspected. But there is no regular
monitoring of produce to protect consumers.
Tests on over 20,000 food samples in Belgium in the wake of a massive food
scandal in 1999 have revealed that up to 4 per cent of the samples contain high
levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from a different source, says Luc
Hens of the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Some eggs had levels similar to
those from the original incident.
This shows, says Hens, that “many…
