75% equine DNA found in meat products that had been sent from Poland

Ranicand wrote: »

As regards the Polish why even mention this?

If it says 100% Irish beef why is anything added from another country?

Also Poland do produce Horse meat maybe McAdam Foods purchased filler with horse meat from Poland that was sold as such.

All the lies seen to be on this end and the Government is up to their necks in it.

How can they say horse meat is safe if they don't now how the horse meat got into the food chain in the first place ?

Let us not forget it was not only horse meat in the mix there was also pork.

All these lies going on I wonder what else goes into our food.

The only way to eat meat is to go into a proper butcher and see the cow carcass.

Ranicand wrote: »

Anyway mystery solved.

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Ranicand wrote: »

Yes they found some Piggott DNA.:D

Alan Reilly, chief executive of the Food Safety Authority, said the latest findings demonstrated that Ireland was dealing with fraud, not an accidental contamination.

"We're no longer talking about trace amounts of horse DNA in product. We're talking about horsemeat. Somebody, someplace, is drip-feeding horsemeat into the burger manufacturing industry. We don't know yet exactly where this is happening. All the documentary checks that we have on these shipments show that they have come from Poland," Reilly said.

Reilly chided Polish veterinary authorities for failing to tell Ireland about any of the official results of their investigations there.

But Susan O'Keeffe, an Irish senator whose work as an investigative journalist two decades ago blew the lid on corrupt practices among Irish beef exporters, said the paper trail could not be trusted to identify the horsemeat fraudsters. She noted that Irish producers two decades ago were caught mislabeling meat for a range of scams, including the sale of rotten beef hearts to Russia and non-halal meat to Muslim countries.

"People were employed to cut, scrape labels off frozen meat, and put their own stamps on it," O'Keeffe said. "You could do it with the meat itself, and you could do it with the box. You could forge labels. You could write your own labels. You could print your own labels. All of this did happen in our time."

O'Keeffe said Ireland therefore could not trust its conclusions now to labels and papers that could be forged or altered. "It doesn't naturally follow that the meat came from Poland or that the meat was Polish," she said. "It might be. But it may not be."

allthedoyles wrote: »

Now sky news say that Findus Lasagne contains 100% horse meat ........Not dna this time

http://news.sky.com/story/1049133/findus-beef-lasagne-meals-100-percent-horsemeat

100 %

goat2 wrote: »

there is only one answer, support the small butcher shop in the cormer, the owner is always there, he is able to tell you exactily what farm your meat come from, mine get his in a ten mile radius,
i know the animal has hada good life,
has died without stress and pain,
i know it may sometimes dearer than the big outlets, but i would rather have little of a good, thing than loads of rubbish from a box that may have nothing of what it says on the box in it.