However, German authorities said Thursday anthrax had not come from the plant's meat.
The man, a French national who commutes across the border to work in German city of Saarbruecken, had been infected on a farm in the French region of Lorraine, health officials was quoted as saying by DPA. The man was under treatment.
The Saarland state health ministry and the meat company added that they had checked the hygienic clothing he wore while handling meat and found no spores of anthrax. Disease experts said it was highly unlikely he had passed anthrax to the meat.
"He wore a gloves, disposable plastic cuffs reaching from his wrists to his elbows and a long-armed smock while he was working," state Health Minister Gerhard Vigener was quoted as saying by DPA.
Anthrax is caused by the Bacillus anthracis germ and is now very rare in Europe.
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