UK Supermarket giant says tests show budget product is
heavily contaminated and contains 100% horse meat, not beef as the label makes
consumers belief. Tesco apologizes and admits it has 'let customers down.
The food
fraud scandal escalated last night when Tesco admitted the ‘minced beef’ in its
frozen bolognese is up to 100 per cent horse-meat.
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The Tesco revelation came as:
The
Government was branded incompetent in heated exchanges in the Commons;
Labor
claimed up to 70,000 horses are unaccounted for in Northern Ireland and could
have entered the European food chain; A Romanian
abattoir that supplied some of the original horse meat angrily denied claims it
had mis-sold the product as beef. Tim Smith, Tesco’s technical director, yesterday
apologised to customers over the latest development.
There may be
more horse-meat out there: Minister's braced for more 'bad news' as Romanian
abattoir is probed as source of contaminated 'beef'
Findus may
sue French suppliers over horse meat contamination as it's revealed one company
used by frozen food specialist was at center of E. Coli scare
After a life
of hard labor, the butcher's knife awaits: The thousands of horses being slaughtered
for their meat in Romania for a £100 a time.
Inside horse-meat central: Desolate abattoir in remote Romania revealed as main source
of contaminated products
He said: ‘A week ago Tesco withdrew a frozen Everyday
Value spaghetti bolognese product from sale. ‘We did this as a precaution because Findus products
from the same factory were reportedly at risk of containing horsemeat.
‘Since then, we have carried out a number of tests on
the product and those tests identified the presence of horse DNA.
Owen Paterson, the Secretary of State for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, updated ministers about the investigation into horse-meat contamination
Pugh. Owen Paterson, the Secretary of State for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, updated ministers about the investigation into
horsemeat contamination
Of the positive results, most are at a trace level of
less than 1 per cent but three showed significant levels of horse DNA,
exceeding 60 per cent.’
Asked what the true level was, the company said the horse
meat ranged between 60 and 100 per cent. There have been concerns that the horse meat used in
burgers, lasagne and bolognese sold in the UK is contaminated with veterinary
drugs, such as bute.
Bute is banned from the human food chain because it can
cause aplastic anaemia, which is a type of leukaemia.
Mr Smith said Tesco’s test for bute was clear, adding
that the company would not take food from Comigel’s facility again.
The revelations show Tesco has been stocking products
containing horse meat from two different European sources.
The scandal emerged four weeks ago following the
revelation of contamination of burgers made by manufacturers in Ireland.
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, faced accusations that the Government has
mishandled the crisis during a statement to MPs yesterday.
Ministers and the Food Standards Agency took three
weeks before ordering comprehensive testing of processed beef products sold in
the high street and served up in schools, hospitals, prisons and other public
institutions.
Mr Paterson suggested the horse contamination was the
result of an international criminal conspiracy and that police in Europe and
the UK are involved in the investigation.
Oh my, this is soo scary. Only God can protect, horse-meat? What else have we eaten in our burgers, hot dogs, lasagna without knowing?
Na wa oo!
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