Kaiser's pulls frozen lasagnes for testing
Published: 11 Feb 13 16:54 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20130211-47903.html
German supermarket chain Kaisers pulled its own brand frozen lasagnes from shelves to check for horse meat after British supermarkets detected up to 100 percent horse in their beef ready meals, it emerged on Monday.
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While there was no evidence to suggest that there was horse meat in the products, a spokeswoman told the paper, the chain had decided to withdraw them on “consumer protection” grounds.
The supermarket was, she added, still waiting on a reply. The origin of the meat used to make Kaiser's A&P products remained unclear.
British watchdog the Food Safety Association said that there could be a chance of horse meat in ready-made products on sale in Germany as experts found it in food on sale in UK branches of German supermarket chain Aldi.
A French company delivering that particular dish to UK branches of Aldi also apparently delivered to German ones.
“There is no evidence to suggest that falsely labelled products containing horse meat are on sale in Germany,” the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection told the magazine.
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The French company delivered to Europe ,the meat did not come from France but from the east of Europe .
There are possibilities that it is donkey as well as horse and may be connected to the flood of horses and donkeys being slaughtered in Romania following a law being enforced banning horse/donkey carts from the roads (I kid you not ).
German bury your head in the sand tactics again.
Oh, I am outraged! Horse/donkey carts are banned from national and European roads in Romania? You don't say! So does that mean they can use only village roads? How can that be possible?
I am curious who launched the rumour that the respective law was only recently enforced. Could it be the French food-industry officials? Or directly the French company involved, confronted with the fact that somebody in the industry could never take horse meat for beef?
Looks like McDonalds' standards are set higher than EU.
Maybe they would taste better with a little horse,
P.S. I'm not a American hater but no fan of McDonalds either.
Sometimes I think I have bet on a burger when I go horse racing at Hoppegarten. German racing is totally lacking in athmosphere in comparison to the UK, Ireland and France.
Just what we really need isn't it ichbines. More people on the planet. Just think. 5 billion old folk on pension and in nursing homes. With only 3-4 billion and falling who have to pay for it based on the low birth rates. No thanks. Anyway. We have two types of teeth in our mouths. incisors (for meat) as well as molars (for salads) I'd say a balanced approach is best.
Last time China had a best seller it was "the little red book " from the good old cultural revolution ,I still have my copy.
I Suggest "the person" whom wrote the report is given a geography lesson forthwith.