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Just been announced 60% horsemeat in this product,is anything with minced beef actually just beef?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.One of the reasons I avoid processed food is because I have reservations about what is described as 'beef'. To be honest I'd happily have horse if I knew I was eating muscle and not sinew.
I much prefer to go to my butcher and see him trimming meat for my mince/pies/casseroles than eat processed meals.
I much prefer to go to my butcher and see him trimming meat for my mince/pies/casseroles than eat processed meals.
This from the FSA
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It comes back to what we have discussed before - the consumer is being ripped off if they are buying a product described as beef lasagne that is actually adulterated with meat from a different animal. This is about consumer confidence, provenance of the source, and quality of the product as described.
From a food safety perspective , you can argue that horse meat is tastier and healthier than beef, but that is missing the point, especially if this adulteration of beef with horsemeat allows phenylbutazeine into the food chain - a product often used in horses as a painkiller, but that in rare cases in humans exposed to it can cause aplastic anaemia....
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It comes back to what we have discussed before - the consumer is being ripped off if they are buying a product described as beef lasagne that is actually adulterated with meat from a different animal. This is about consumer confidence, provenance of the source, and quality of the product as described.
From a food safety perspective , you can argue that horse meat is tastier and healthier than beef, but that is missing the point, especially if this adulteration of beef with horsemeat allows phenylbutazeine into the food chain - a product often used in horses as a painkiller, but that in rare cases in humans exposed to it can cause aplastic anaemia....
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