Call for EU to immediately ban horse meat from America

Humane Society International is calling on European Union officials to protect consumer wellness as well as at nowadays ban the sale of horsemeat coming from North America.

Its telephone band is inwards answer inwards answer to tidings reports that upwards to 100 per cent horsemeat has been constitute inwards Findus beef products marketed inwards France, Sweden as well as Britain.

“It is alarming to larn that European consumers may bring fallen victim to large-scale nutrient fraud, unwittingly consuming horse-meat products incorrectly labelled every bit beef,” the group’s European Union director, Jo Swabe, said.

“Consumer alert is understandable every bit many people would normally avoid eating Equus caballus flesh.

“Humane Society International calls on officials to admit the potential run a hazard to populace wellness as well as safety, every bit this horsemeat could bring originated from anywhere inwards the world, including from North America, as well as to at nowadays ban its sale from North America.”

The grouping argued in that place was a strong likelihood that roughly of the horsemeat had been imported into the European Union from either Canada or Mexico. France, it said, was 1 of the biggest importers of North American horsemeat.

Most Equus caballus heart exported to the European Union from both Canada as well as United Mexican States truly originates from USA horses shipped over the border.

France also receives horse-meat imports from other Member States, a proportion of which are truly re-exports from Canada as well as Mexico, too. In addition, French statistics exhibit that a full 16,970 horses were slaughtered domestically during the same year.

There were meaning concerns near horsemeat of U.S. root containing residues from veterinarian drugs that inwards the European Union are banned for role inwards animals killed for food, the lodge said.

It noted that recent audits conducted past times the European Commission’s Food as well as Veterinary Office inwards Canada as well as United Mexican States bring concluded that the medical handling records for U.S. horses are insufficient to guarantee that standards equivalent to those provided for past times European Union legislation are applied.

 

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