Horse-meat found in 4.66% of tested beef products
Tests yesteryear government on beef products across Europe flora that 4.66 per cent were positive for Equus caballus meat, the European Commission has revealed.
The drug phenylbutazone, a mutual anti-inflammatory drug used inward horses which is banned from the human nutrient chain, was detected inward 0.51 per cent of horses carcasses checked inward some other serial of tests.
The committee said at that topographic point were no security issues, simply that tougher penalties would apply inward hereafter over fraudulent labelling.
The co-ordinated EU-wide testing for horsemeat deoxyribonucleic acid together with phenylbutazone was launched equally the horse-meat scandal unfolded across Europe. It was co-financed yesteryear the commission.
The number of tests that were carried out to discover the extent of the mislabelling varied betwixt 10 to 150 samples, depending on the size of the European Union province together with on consumption habits.
The criteria for the phenylbutazone sampling carried out were ane sample for every fifty tonnes of Equus caballus meat, alongside a minimum of five tests. Some fellow member states exceeded the number of tests recommended yesteryear the commission.
In all, 7259 tests were carried out yesteryear the competent government inward the 27 European Union countries, of which 4144 tested for the presence of horsemeat deoxyribonucleic acid together with 3115 tested for the presence of phenylbutazone.
Of those tests, 193 revealed positive traces of horsemeat deoxyribonucleic acid (4.66%) together with sixteen showed positive traces of phenylbutazone (0.51%).
In addition, fellow member states reported some other 7951 tests for the presence of horsemeat deoxyribonucleic acid performed yesteryear nutrient concern operators. Of these, 110 contained horse-meat deoxyribonucleic acid (1.38%).
The positive samples flora inward relation to horsemeat deoxyribonucleic acid combined alongside the really depression levels of bute detected represents a modest operate of the overall production inward EU, the committee said.
The results correspond alongside the articulation disputation published yesteryear the European Food Safety Authority together with the European Medicines Agency on Apr xv which concluded that the risks associated to bute were of “low concern for consumers due to the depression likelihood of exposure together with the overall depression likelihood of toxic effects together with that, on a given day, the probability of a consumer beingness both susceptible to developing aplastic anaemia together with beingness exposed to phenylbutazone was estimated to hit about from ii inward a trillion to 1 inward 100 million”.
The results bring been exchanged through the EU’s Rapid Alert for Food together with Feed, an on-line portal that plays a cardinal operate inward ensuring a high marker of nutrient security for European Union citizens since it allows European nutrient security government to swiftly inform each other of serious risks flora inward relation to nutrient or feed.
“Today’s findings bring confirmed that this is a affair of nutrient fraud together with non of nutrient safety,” the Commissioner for Health together with Consumers inward the EU, Tonio Borg, said.
“Restoring the trust together with confidence of European consumers together with trading partners inward our nutrient chain next this fraudulent labelling scandal is instantly of vital importance for the European economic scheme given that the nutrient sector is the largest unmarried economical sector inward the EU.
“In the coming months, the committee volition advise to strengthen the controls along the nutrient chain inward line of piece of job alongside lessons learned.”
The tests carried out terms virtually €400 each.
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