EU DNA tests show up to 5% horsemeat in beef products
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 16, 2013 18:52
Thousands of DNA tests on beef products across the European Union found the meals contained up to 5.0 percent of horsemeat, the European Commission said Tuesday.
The EU on February 15 ordered 2,250 DNA tests on prepared meals said to contain beef in the wake of a horsemeat scandal that hugely undermined consumer confidence in the food industry.
It also ordered tests in horse carcasses for the potentially harmful horse drug phenylbutazone, or bute, which is banned from the human food chain.
The Commission briefly posted the up to five percent figure on its website but then removed the statement. More details are expected later in the day giving country-by-country findings.
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