KIEV, May 31 – Ukraine will insist that Germany apologize for the scandal of over the alleged contamination of Ukrainian corn with dioxin, and the exporter company does not rule out filing a claim for compensation for libel, Deutsche Welle has reported.

The Ukrainian agriculture ministry reported that it would send an official letter to the Embassy of Germany in Ukraine.

The ministry will ask diplomats to retract in public claims that dioxin had been detected in Ukrainian corn used as chicken feed in Germany.