Horsemeat scandal | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-13

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Horsemeat scandal


00:01:11 1 Investigations
00:01:21 1.1 Irish Investigations
00:04:05 1.2 UK Investigations
00:05:16 1.3 Test results
00:06:33 2 Companies
00:06:42 2.1 ABP Food Group
00:09:42 2.2 Spanghero
00:10:35 2.3 Comigel
00:13:50 2.4 HJ Schypke
00:14:32 2.5 Frigilunch
00:14:58 2.6 Sodexo
00:15:31 2.7 Kuršu Zeme
00:15:55 2.8 Wiljo Import en Export B.V. and Vleesgroothandel Willy Selten B.V.
00:16:25 2.9 Findus
00:16:55 2.10 Compass Group
00:17:17 2.11 Whitbread
00:17:35 3 Source of meat
00:18:48 4 Health implications
00:19:57 4.1 Phenylbutazone
00:24:06 4.2 Equine infectious anaemia
00:25:17 5 Contributory causes
00:26:11 6 Implications for religious groups
00:26:54 7 Reactions
00:27:50 7.1 European Union officials
00:28:59 7.2 Sales drop
00:29:32 8 Factories
00:29:41 9 Arrests
00:30:50 10 December seizures
00:31:23 11 Timeline
00:31:43 12 See also



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The 2013 horse meat scandal was a scandal in Europe in which foods advertised as containing beef were found to contain undeclared or improperly declared horse meat – as much as 100% of the meat content in some cases. A smaller number of products also contained other undeclared meats, such as pork. The issue came to light on 15 January 2013, when it was reported that horse DNA had been discovered in frozen beefburgers sold in several Irish and British supermarkets.The analysis stated that 23 out of 27 samples of beef burgers also contained pig DNA; pork is a taboo food in the Muslim and Jewish communities.While the presence of undeclared meat was not a health issue, the scandal revealed a major breakdown in the traceability of the food supply chain, and the risk that harmful ingredients could have been included as well. Sports horses, for example, could have entered the food supply chain, and with them the veterinary drug phenylbutazone which is banned in food animals. The scandal has since spread to 13 other European countries, and European authorities have decided to find an EU-wide solution. They initiated meat testing of about 4,000 horse meat samples for the veterinary drug.