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tagged: company, consumers, customers, EU customers, Greece, horsemeat burgers, Ireland, Poland, scandalNew horsemeat burgers scandal: Irish company with EU customers
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
Irelands’ “number one” burger producer suspended production after after tests showed that horsemeat was found in firm’s raw material ingredients. Ireland’s agriculture department confirmed the findings pointing the finger at Poland as the country of origin for the raw materials. Irish beefburger producer Rangeland Foods has customers in the UK, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Holland, Cyprus and Gibraltar. .
“Results of tests on a Polish meat ingredient at Ireland’s Rangeland Foods – a supplier of frozen burgers to restaurants, caterers and pubs, including local fast food chain Supermac’s – contained 75% horse DNA, the agriculture department said.” (onenews)
According to Rangeland Foods, no suspect product reached consumers and that it has stopped the production until tests and investigation conclude
“The company said the consignment was received in early January but did not go into food production. None of the burgers have gone into the food chain, it said. Production had been temporarily suspended and the test results were immediately reported to the department of agriculture.” (guardian)
“Ireland’s agriculture minister has confirmed that another Irish meat processing company has suspended production of burgers after horsemeat was found in a consignment of beef. Simon Coveney said his department had received tests that found 75% equine DNA in a raw material ingredient at Rangeland Foods in the border county of Monaghan.
The company bills itself as Ireland’s number one producer of beef burgers to the food service industry with customers in the UK, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Holland, Cyprus and Gibraltar.
Coveney has also called in the Garda Siochána to investigate the latest discovery of horsemeat in beef.
The department of agriculture has been conducting further investigations to establish if a Polish-labelled product has been used in other meat processing plants in Ireland following a similar find at the Silvercrest food production company.
The minister said the consignment in the latest case was imported through a meat trader based in Ireland.
A spokesman for the minister said: “The department is continuing contact with the Polish authorities as the investigation has shown that all implicated raw material ingredient is labelled as Polish product. Arising from today’s findings, added to the facts uncovered in the investigation at Silvercrest and inquiries north of the border, the minister has ordered the involvement of the special investigation unit of the department. He has also asked the gardai to join the investigation team.”
The spokesman added that Coveney was “110% certain” of the veracity of test results from the plant.
The latest horsemeat scare comes as a joint committee of the Republic’s parliament prepares to discuss promoting Irish food on Wednesday.
Last month scientific tests on beef products sold in Ireland in Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland uncovered low levels of horse DNA. Food safety officials in the republic said there was no risk to human health and the burgers had been removed. Since then Tesco, Aldi, the Co-op and Burger King have dropped Silvercrest as a supplier. “(Full story Guardian)
PS I hope there was no horse meat in that one hamburger I consume once or every two years… (Yucks!)
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Nothing wrong with horse meat. It is just delicious and very healthy.
your are banned!
Well, nobody’s perfect
There is however a much more sinister aspect to this. The Polish company may be getting the blame, but this whole thing stinks to the heavens. The Irish government has admitted that the horsemeat is being processed in Ireland for export to the EU, including Poland. Why import it back to Ireland? There is a big, illegal trade going on between Ireland and England in “unregistered” horses being taken over to England and slaughtered there, also illegally. Since the recession hit, thousands of horses have simply been abandoned by their owners. These animals feed this trade, pardon the pun.
Just after the horsemeat was found in one of the Tesco “beef” burgers, a truck carrying illegal horses was also found to carry quite a haul of hashish. Maybe they want to check the cookies as well?
The British shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh told the commons that she has evidence of this meat also being contaminated with phenylbutazone, a carcenogenic drug which is banned.
And just to put the cat well and truely amongst the pigeons, the Irish company involved in all of this is called Solvercrests, the Supermacs chain where the horse DNA was found is worth something like 60% of the turnover of Silvercrests, and Silvercrests itself is owned by the Beef baron Larry Goodman who has a rather dodgy past in the meat business ihnvolving creative accountancy, jail, etc….
that’s creative burger
A horse steak with green pepper sauce, yammie yammie !!!! Better & much more healthier than gmo infected cow and poultry meat(such as the mc do, KFC, etc shit …). Nowadays consumers are so stupid and only eat what is advertised without being critical about how crops and animals are cultivated and raised. Brave new world bunch of idiots!
In the UK eating Horsemeat is taboo. In other parts of Europe like France and Poland its accepted, but the British find the whole process disgusting. No one knows why really. One politician, Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps offered the explanation live on television that it was because “British people don’t like eating animals that eat meat themselves” before being reminded that horses are actually herbivores. The main problem for me if you buy a beefburger you expect it to be made of beef, not beef, horse, pork, lamb, chicken and anything else thrown into the processing plant.
horse eating doneky? lol
as you write: first, it’s taboo in some cultures (do not want to mention Chinse habits here), second one has to know what one eats.
and further, if meat is being pushed illegally, one should wonder also about the safety standards.
Stop eating my friend. Food is not what they tell you it is, in fact, it’s not even food. At best a stomach filler, and usually not a very healthy one either. And then of course most people go zapping this stuff with micro waves, just to make sure they will not get anything out of it that may benefit them in terms of nutrition and energy. Ever wonder why we have this explosion of obese, unfit, unhealth looking individuals everywhere? It’s good for the pharma industry, that much we do know…
Here’s a little anecdote from the “Green Island” (where they very recently found that “organic Irish carrots” actually come from Israel…). A good few years ago one of Ireland’s largest meat processors decided to do an advertising campaign for their “delicious sausages”. Billboards everywhere advertising this stuff. Headline? “At least 7% meat” Obvious question nobody dared ask: “What’s the other 93% then”? It’s a process called meat-harvesting. Too early in the morning for details. But, if 7% is such an achievement, then what the hell is in the cheaper stuff?
The meat processor in question was part of the “empire” belonging to the same guy who owns “Silvercrests”, now making “horseef” burgers…
Due to the way the Single Market is set up, it’s illegal for countries to do the kind of product inspections that used to be standard for imported goods. So now stuff can be made in one EU country then dumped in another, or imported to the EU via one country that is lax on import inspections and dumped in another.
Asda has now got 80% horse containing beef burgers, while the BBC is reporting on Beef lasagna containing 100% horse meat?
Anybody ever wonder what happens to all those stray cats and dogs? At least we’re not at the “Soylent Green” stage, yet. Or are we…