Contaminated Serbian corn supplied to German farmers

Alfred C Toepfer International imported 45,000 metric tonnes of corn contaminated with aflatoxin from Serbia. A batch had been delivered to more than 3,000 farms in northwest Germany for animal feed.

According to German authorities 10,000 metric tonnes of the contaminated feed had been delivered to 13 feed producers in Lower Saxony, which processed the corn for compound feed for cattle, pigs and poultry. This was then delivered to 3,560 farms in Lower Saxony and 14 farms in North Rhine-Westphalia, with smaller proportions reaching the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony. Some was even sent across the border into the Netherlands.