It is within IT's power to ensure horse meat can never again contaminate products marketed as "beef". This is the view of Sarah Leslie, CIO of Iglo Foods Group, which operates the Birds Eye brand in the UK. "With all manufacturing, IT is ...
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A Lancashire-based meat and poultry supplier has opened a division in Australia after enjoying a record year for sales. Gilberts Foods goes Down Under with a new venture based in Brisbane Gilbert’s Foods supplies the UK’s ...
The horse meat scandal has dominated the media in recent weeks. From sensationalist tabloid headlines to Twitter gags, discussion on the topic has been widespread. It all started in January after traces of horse meat were found in ...
US-based Life Technologies, in partnership with Instituto de Medicina Genómica (IMEGEN), Spain, has developed the RapidFinder Equine ID Kit, which detects the presence of equine DNA extracted in meat samples. The kit can be used in ...
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Swedish retailer IKEA is withdrawing certain minced meat products from its store shelves after the tests revealed that the products contained traces of horse DNA. The company is withdrawing Familjen Dafgard's wiener sausages from stores ...
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European meat suppliers are selling a low quality meat known as desinewed meat (DSM) to UK sausage companies, and are using misleading labeling such as Baader meat and 3mm mince to represent the product. DSM is type of mechanically ...
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UK-based Castle Foods is recalling its own ready-to-eat foods, labeled as Sangha Foods or Core Foods as they have been prepared in the facilities that are not approved for meat products, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). ...
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has released a second set of test results from the industry revealing 99% of products sampled proved negative for traces of horse DNA. The FSA's results, published Friday afternoon (22 February), confirmed ...
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Birds Eye has pulled three beef ready meals from supermarkets in the UK and Ireland as a precaution after a product it sells in Belgium tested positive for horse DNA. The company said today (22 February) its 340g Traditional Spaghetti ...
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Russia is likely to impose a temporary ban on meat imports from European Union (EU) nations if it does not receive additional guarantees that meat products sold to the country will not contain horsemeat. Russia's chief sanitary official ...
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The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to double its testing of meat products in the wake of the horsemeat contamination scandal. The agency said it is including beef-based foods sold pre-packed, or loose, such as cafe sandwiches. The ...
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The horsemeat scandal has caught big retailers “with the their underwear down” and it was still too early to predict the full implications of the crisis, a leading food policy commentator has told FoodManufacture.co.uk. ...
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They called for more meat tests along the food chain in the wake of the scandal. Many voiced concern over member states’ level of commitment to enforcing the EU’s existing rules on labelling and urged the European Commission to ...
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Three men have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of offences under the Fraud Act by police investigating allegations horsemeat was mislabelled as beef. Dyfed-Powys Police in Wales yesterday (14 February) made arrests at two plants that ...
UK police have raided two meat firms as part of an investigation into how beef products containing horse meat have been sold. The UK Food Standards Agency issued a statement yesterday evening (12 February) to say its officials and police ...
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