Food inspectors to monitor grain shipments

Food safety inspectors are to increase checks on all maize shipments from the US following the discovery of corn pellets contaminated with banned genetically-manipulated grain at Rotterdam port. Greenpeace activists alerted the authorities to the issue last month. All the grain which has not yet been processed into animal feed will be returned to the US.

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