EU should test for other drugs in meat, says charity
The European Commission has non been thorough plenty inward its testing programme on Equus caballus meat, the European managing director of Humane Society International, Joanna Swabe, says.
Swabe was commenting later the European Commission released the results of a testing programme that involved 27 European Union countries. Of these, 4144 tested for the presence of horse-meat DNA, of which 4.66 per cent were positive. There were 3115 tests for the presence of phenylbutazone, of which sixteen (1.51 per cent) were positive for the drug, which is banned from entering the nutrient chain.
“Testing for only i of the many drugs banned for role inward animals that larn into the nutrient chain falls brusk of a precautionary as well as thorough approach to addressing fraud as well as ensuring nutrient security standards are met,” Swabe said.
“It isn’t only phenylbutazone inward Equus caballus kernel that poses a potential direct a opportunity to human health.
“The European Commission has failed to try tests for a whole host of other banned veterinarian drugs, which are unremarkably administered to horses, as well as is thereby failing the populace past times allowing kernel from these animals to live on sold inward the European Union inward contravention of its ain nutrient security as well as consumer protection regulations.”
The guild called over again for a moratorium on the sale of Equus caballus kernel from North America as well as whatever tertiary dry reason that does non run into European Union import requirements.
For years the guild has raised concerns well-nigh the cruelty of Equus caballus slaughter.
Most recently, the scheme helped convey to lite the number of nutrient security amongst regard to Equus caballus kernel derived from animals that are raised equally companion, sport as well as working animals as well as are ubiquitously treated amongst drugs prohibited for role inward animals slaughtered for human consumption.
About xx per cent of the EU’s horsemeat is imported from North America, primarily from horses originating from the United States, according to European Union statistics.
The guild argues that slaughterhouses inward Canada as well as Mexico, where the horses are taken for slaughter, are unable to secure accurate information on these animals’ medical histories.
Equine identification documents created to satisfy European Union import requirements direct keep been found past times the European Commission’s Food as well as Veterinary Office to live on prone to fraud.
EU nutrient security regulations ban for role inward food-producing animals several veterinarian drugs for which no maximum residuum confine has been established. Regulations province that if an beast receives specific drugs fifty-fifty in i lawsuit inward their lifetime, that beast is banned from entering the nutrient chain whether residues tin live on detected post-mortem or not.
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