Horse meat in burgers?

[anon361]

Ah ! You just beat me to it !!

At Tesco, out of 27 samples 10 contained horse DNA. Other samples tested positive for pork as well.

Apparently Aldi , Lidle and other stores are also affected. It was said that it was the lower end products that

were contaminated. No health risk has been mentioned, and they promise to look into it.

No, that's inaccurate, they tested 27 products across Tesco, Dunnes, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland. 10 out of the 27 had horse meat in them (37%) but the highest concentration was in the Tesco own brand Value burgers with 29% of the burger being Horse meat.
It also found pig DNA in 23 of the 27 burgers (85%)..

[Usernamed]

Ah for fucks sake, just horse 'em into ya... *groans*

[Big J]

I notice Super Valu and Centras not mentioned are these the place to go to get proper food?

[longtipp]

but the highest concentration was in the Tesco own brand Value burgers with 29% of the burger being Horse meat.

I think thats inaccurate too, my reading of this is that 29% of the meat content was horsemeat. We have no idea what the total meat content was.

[Martin Ward]

What is the problem with horsemeat?

[anon361]

I think thats inaccurate too, my reading of this is that 29% of the meat content was horsemeat. We have no idea what the total meat content was.

That's what I said, 29% of the burger tested was horsemeat, I said nothing about the remaining 71%

[Big J]

There you go

[anon361]

What is the problem with horsemeat?

In Europe where horse meat is sold there are regulations to the health of the animal etc same way we have with cows but there are no such regulations in Ireland so the health of the animal if it came from Ireland could be any condition, even died of a disease etc.

[Martin Ward]

In Europe where horse meat is sold there are regulations to the health of the animal etc same way we have with cows but there are no such regulations in Ireland so the health of the animal if it came from Ireland could be any condition, even died of a disease etc.

Brilliant. Cheers mate

[longtipp]

That's what I said, 29% of the burger tested was horsemeat, I said nothing about the remaining 71%

Total meat content could have been less than 10%.