Latest British tests on beef products reveal no horse DNA

The minute quarterly circular of tests on British beef products, which delivered 9688 novel results, constitute no traces of Equus caballus deoxyribonucleic acid higher upward the 1 per cent threshold, Britain’s Food Standards Agency reported.

The means said 7402 of the exam results were submitted yesteryear ABP Food Group.

The figures include all exam results submitted since the compilation of the kickoff quarterly report, published inwards mid-June.

The quarterly testing was 1 of the measures implemented inwards United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland next the horse-meat contamination scandal before this year, which spread across much of Europe.

Contamination of processed beef products alongside horse-meat resulted inwards the retrieve of tens of millions of ready-to-eat nitty-gritty products across the continent.

The scandal highlighted the complexities of the nutrient chain too its vulnerability to rogue traders.

The Food Standards Agency’s principal executive, Catherine Brown, said: “We convey continued to move alongside manufacture too local regime since the previous laid of results were published, too at that spot has been ongoing co-operation from the nutrient industry.”

The means said a sum of 32,404 beef results tested for horse-meat deoxyribonucleic acid convey been submitted yesteryear the manufacture to the means since Feb 15. Of these, 47 were positive.

 

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