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Washington Post-SPDC overreaction



Myanmar Bans Imports in Dioxin Scare
Sunday, June 13, 1999; 9:47 a.m. EDT

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar became the latest Asian country Sunday to
announce a ban on imports of meat and dairy products from European nations
over fear of dioxin contamination.

The Health Ministry order, announced in official newspapers, bars the
import, storage and sale of the products -- including frozen and canned
meat, egg and dairy products, milk powder, cakes and chocolates.

One of Asia's poorest countries, Myanmar, also known as Burma, imports small
quantities of such products.

Nations around the world that have imposed bans on a variety of European
food products since it was revealed a Belgian company produced animal feed
laced with the cancer-causing chemical.

European Union officials insist that no products traced from the tainted
feed have been exported outside the 15-nation EU and have called such
blanket bans an overreaction.