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The move came as more countries slapped bans on imports of products feared laced with the cancer-causing chemical dioxin.
Switzerland, which has already stopped chicken and egg imports, banned Belgian milk, milk products, cheese, pork and beef on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Hong Kong announced similar bans.
Singapore has widened its ban to include European meat, eggs and dairy imports. Officials are advising people to discard all products until Singapore verifies they are safe.
The food scandal erupted when it emerged that chickens on about 400 farms had been given feed contaminated with dioxin.
The latest bans were announced after it came to light that the company suspected of supplying the tainted feed had also provided it to pig and beef farmers.
Austria, Greece, the Netherlands and South Korea have already banned Belgian meat products and the United States is imposing a temporary ban on chicken and pork from the European Union.
Up to 1,000 farms affected
It is now thought up to 1,000 farms could be affected by the scare.
Several hundred farms in the Netherlands, France and Germany are also under surveillance, as governments and food industries across Europe struggle to trace tainted products.
The EU has ordered the destruction of millions of pounds worth of chicken and egg products exported from Belgium since 15 January.
It said it would also demand the removal from sale of pork and cattle products from farms that used feed tainted with the chemical.
But the European Commission described as "disproportionate" the US decision to block all poultry and pork products from the whole of the EU.
The US has said it may ease the ban if it can be sure European meat imports are free of dioxins.
'A colossal job'
The Belgian Government has said there is no general contamination of the country's meat and that tests on pork and beef have found "no effective presence of dioxins".
However, it says pork and beef products from suspect farms would be gradually withdrawn from sale.
It says certain high-fat products will also be withdrawn because if dioxins were present, they would probably be concentrated in fat.
The Belgian media estimates the crisis could cost the country around Bfr30bn ($767m).
Empty shelves
Weekend shoppers have been faced with empty shelves in Belgium, and thousands crossed into France, Germany and England to do their food shopping.
Some towns opened special dump sites so people could dispose of suspect produce and the Belgian army has made a barracks available to store unwanted goods.
Ministers sacked
Two government ministers have been sacked because of an alleged three-month delay in publicising the scare and ordering restrictions.
The animal feed company Verkest has been singled out as the source of the contamination and two managers have been charged with fraud.
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