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All over Europe there was a scramble to clear shelves of all things Belgian that had a whiff of chicken or egg attached to it. Eight tons of Belgian chickens were in cinerated in Greece and Russian border guards were ready to pounce on any Belgian chickens. The EU’s Executive Commis sion ordered the measure after a meeting of veterinary experts and lashed out at Belgium for moving too slowly when the European consumer could be in danger. “This is completely unaccept able. We reserve the right to take the necessary steps,” EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said, threatening Belgium with le gal action. Belgian government ministers knew about the contam ination a month before making it public last week. In Belgium, two officials from a major animal feed fat producer were arrested and accused of tam pering with the fat that goes into animal feed, the likely cause of how toxic dioxins entered the food chain. Apart from poultry farmers, the feed producer also was involved in the pork sector, raising fears the contamination may have spread. “There is a total pig slaughter ban Thursday,” said Health Min ister Luc Van den Bossche, hoping it will give him time to trace any suspect meat from some 500 firms that may have used the contami nated feed. Meat from the suspect farms will also have to be taken out of the stores, he said. The scandal broke last week when a television station reported that dioxin-laced fat was used to make poultry feed. Dioxin is a car cinogenic byproduct in the manu facture of some herbicides and pesticides. The EU decision forces EU na tions to destroy any poultry, eggs or byproducts from some 400 sus pect farms in Belgium produced from Jan.l5toJunel. In the capital, the food scandal immediately monopolized the election campaign for the June 13 polls, especially after Tuesday’s resignation of Belgium’s health and farm ministers. The EU Commission will now investigate further to see of the dioxin contamination was acci dental “or far more serious — are we talking about habitual use,” said EU Consumer Affairs Com missioner Emma Bonino. She said “acute [health] effects appear to be relatively unlikely,” but added “there are possible long-term effects.” “It is impossible to assess the ef fects because we don’t know the rate of exposure,” she said. The first traces of contaminated chick en feed in Belgium go back to Jan uary. Van den Bossche extended a slaughter ban on chickens for a day Wednesday until he had a clearer view on the extent of the dioxin contamination. Mexican pop starTrevi sought for questioning By John Rice The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — For most of this decade, Gloria Trevi was one of Mexico’s biggest pop stars, seemingly rebellious, indepen dent and sexually audacious. But on Wednesday, Chihuahua state prosecutors released a want ed poster saying they are seeking to question Trevi and her former manager on allegations they lured underage girls into sex. The state Attorney General’s Of fice has not filed criminal charges, but spokesman Victor Gonzalez said officials are trying to locate Trevi, who seemingly dropped from sight months ago, and Sergio Andrade, who hasn’t been seen publicly in years. The first allegations against the two surfaced in 1998, when An drade’s former wife, Aline Her nandez, wrote a book and filed a criminal complaint accusing him of luring her into sex before they married when she was 15. She portrayed Trevi as an accomplice to a man who established a cult like domination over his stable of young entertainers. Many doubted the expose’s ve racity, in part because Hernandez and Trevi worked for rival televi sion networks. But the account gained credibil ity earlier this year, when the par ents of a 17-year-old in Andrade’s care, Karina Yapor, lodged similar charges in the northern city of Chihuahua. Yabor, a performing arts stu dent who began studying with Andrade when she was 12, aban doned an 18-month-old infant last year while she was with Andrade in Spain. Officials released the in fant to Yabor’s parents last week. Neither Andrade nor Trevi have responded to the Yabor allega tions, though Trevi repeatedly de nied Hernandez’s claims. Trevi rose to fame in the late 1980s and became best-known for the brash way she sang of youthful frustration and of sexual liberation. And she was far more assertive than the pouting sex symbols common in Mexican entertain ment. At her concerts, in her trademark torn tights, she would lure young men from the audience and strip them to their underwear as she danced around them on stage, her loose hair flailing about. With two films and a string of pop hits, Trevi seemed unstop pable until 1996, when her career faltered. She dropped from sight for a time, saying she needed to care for Andrade, who supposed ly had taken ill. A television series flopped. Then in 1998, Hernandez’s book accused Trevi of luring her into entertainment at age 13 and helping Andrade mentally and sexually dominate her and other girls. “I think Gloria arrived as inno cent as all the rest of us were,” Hernandez said. “If Gloria con tributed to all this, it is because he made her ill, turned her, trained her, educated her in his way.”
