Polish-sourced raw material found to be 75% horse meat
More Polish-sourced raw materials imported into Republic of Ireland for purpose inwards burger production has tested positive for Equus caballus DNA, government convey announced.
Ireland’s Agriculture Minister, Simon Coveney, announced final black that his subdivision had received a show resultant confirming 75 per cent equine deoxyribonucleic acid inwards a raw fabric constituent at Rangeland Foods, inwards County Monaghan.
Rangeland Foods told the subdivision of its purpose of Polish center ingredients inwards the manufacture of sure as shooting burger lines final Th level due to the suspicion of the presence of equine DNA, Coveney said.
The subdivision took samples of the fabric concerned from the flora to show for equine deoxyribonucleic acid together with received the results yesterday.
“In this illustration the raw fabric was imported through a center trader based inwards Ireland,” the government minister said.
Production has been suspended at Rangeland Foods pending the consequence of the investigation, he said.
“The companionship has indicated that none of this production has entered the nutrient chain.
“The subdivision has had inspectors inwards the flora since final Friday,” he added.
“The investigation is focusing on the amount provide chain, including the center trader concerned together with others who facilitated the buy of the production together with its transfer to users inwards Ireland.”
Rangeland Foods calls itself Ireland’s publish 1 producer of beef burgers inwards the nutrient service industry, specialising inwards the pub together with eating theater trade, lawsuit catering, industrial catering, together with quick-service eating theater markets.
Coveney said the subdivision was all the same inwards contact amongst the Polish authorities, equally investigations had shown that all implicated raw-material ingredients were labelled equally Polish product.
Coveney said the latest findings, added to the facts uncovered inwards the investigation at Ireland’s Silvercrest flora together with inquiries inwards Northern Ireland, had convinced him to social club the interest of the Special Investigation Unit of the department. He has also asked the constabulary to bring together the investigation team.
The subdivision said it had been conducting farther inquiries to found whether Polish-labelled production had been used inwards other meat-processing plants inwards Republic of Ireland next the results at Silvercrest, afterward findings belatedly final calendar month that beef burgers produced past times ii plants inwards Republic of Ireland together with 1 inwards UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland had produced burgers tainted amongst Equus caballus DNA.
One burger was found to convey 29 per cent Equus caballus deoxyribonucleic acid relative to its beef content.
The findings resulted inwards tens of millions of frozen beef burgers beingness pulled from supermarket freezers.
Polish-sourced product, which is understood to last convey been labelled equally beef trimmings, has been identified equally the probable origin of the contamination.
Polish government convey been notified together with tests were beingness conducted at plants inwards Poland.
It was reported yesterday that 5 of 6 plants had together with thence far returned negative results for Equus caballus DNA.
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