ATHENS, May 20 – A Greek official heading the foods safety authority resigned on Tuesday following an outcry over tainted sunflower oil which was found to have been imported from Ukraine.
It is the same sunflower oil that was said to have crossed the Albanian border as well.
Thousands of tons of refined and unrefined sunflower oil have been found to have been contaminated by mineral oil from two tainted shipments imported from Ukraine in March.
When it initially announced the possibility of contaminated sunflower oil in Greece in early May, the Hellenic Food Authority had said that the substances the oil contained could be described as carcinogenic and toxic.
Albanian Agriculture Minister Jemin Gjana said the oil imported to the country was not contaminated and it was checked in neighboring Italy. (Tirana Times Staff)
Greek official resigns of contaminated sunflower oil
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