Source: REUTERS written by Padraic Halpin ABP Foods blamed suppliers it said appeared to have delivered mislabeled beef from Poland… The Irish company at the center of a scandal in Europe over horsemeat in beef products, said on Thursday it is leaving the frozen burger market after selling […]
Source: Equine Welfare Alliance “Numbers…would tell us how much of the meat from our horses was being sold as beef…” EWA (Chicago) – USDA data for the first quarter of 2013 indicates a precipitous drop in the number of horses going from the US to Mexico for slaughter. […]
Reporting by Neil Maidment at Yahoo News Tesco said the source of the horse meat was still under investigation.. LONDON – Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, said on Monday it had found horse DNA exceeding 60 percent in some of its own-brand frozen spaghetti bolognese meals withdrawn from stores […]
Adam Taylor of the Business Insider “There are concerns that the horse meat used in the lasagna contained the drug bute, which is a known human health risk.” In January, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) made a horrifying discovery — horse meat had been found in […]
Vickery Eckhoff Forbes.com writer of multi-part series on horse slaughter and the horse industry. Now Appearing in the Huffington Post The news that Burger King has been selling horsemeat-contaminated Whoppers in the UK comes just days before Oklahoma debates a bill that would make horse slaughter legal in […]
By Ralph Riegel of the Irish Independent.ie “This was an imported problem in the Irish food industry and it is important to stress that,” IRELAND will spend millions of euro in a food promotion blitz to counteract the damage threatened by the horse-meat burger scandal. Agriculture Minister Simon […]
James Meikle, Felicity Lawrence and Jemma Buckley The Guardian, Thursday 31 January 2013 20.02 GMT Fast food company said test results at production plant revealed ‘very small trace levels’ of horse DNA in its products Burger King has revealed that some of its burgers were contaminated in the […]
“This is a voluntary and precautionary measure…” Burger King, one of the most popular fast-food chains in Britain, said on Thursday it had stopped using one of the firms caught up in the scandal of supplying grocers with beef that contained horse meat. The British food industry has […]
By Keith Gladdis and Claire Ellicott of MailOnline Of the 13 samples of burger analyzed, nine tested positive for horse DNA The Dutch meat supplier believed to be responsible for contaminating British burgers with horse meat was still operating last night despite being under investigation. New DNA tests […]
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