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Farmers blame multinationals for aflatoxin scare

March 25, 2013

The aflatoxin “hysteria” was “artificially created” by Romania-based multinationals “by trespassing on their territory of economic interests,” Claudiu Franc, president of the Romanian Federation of Cattle Farmers said Friday, at the conclusion of a meeting with the minister of Agriculture, Daniel Constantin in Cluj-Napoca, Mediafax reports.“Three weeks before the scandal erupted, there were talks about [...]

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