The case raises important points which Rotherham's Environmental Health service says should be looked at urgently. At present there is a loophole in the law, which exempts poultry from the rule requiring condemned meat to be stained with an indelible dye to prevent it being resold into the human food chain. This has allowed unscrupulous meat traders to divert condemned poultry products which should have gone to pet food manufacturers - for sale to wholesalers. Until the early 1990s there was a system in place to allow local authorities to monitor the movement of condemned poultry meat. It's removal made a meat laundering scam such as Boid and Tantram's easier to carry out.
Unscrupulous traders can avoid monitoring by exploiting the weakness of the system.
Manufacturers should be made aware that not all 'food brokers' are legitimate and should make every effort to ensure that the broker they use is registered and reputable. Until recently there has been no national body which has the capacity to investigate this kind of illegal trade in condemned meat.