Yorkshire food chain was entered by golden Days: Drug-alert horsemeat

Drug-alert horsemeat did enter Yorkshire food string The ABP Foods plant in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, was at the centre of the first horse meat scandal. By Jack Blanchard Political EditorPublished on Wednesday 2 March 2013 05:00 ILLEGAL horsemeat contaminated with a cancer-causing drug was butchered in a British abattoir and sent to a farm in Yorkshire for human consumption, a Government agency has proved. Health Ministers unveiled recently that, unlike previous assurances, a which was killed and butchered in Britain and considered to be infected with the carcinogenic medicine phenylbutazone a' commonly called abutea a' has indeed entered the UK food chain. Food security authorities said the barred meat was eaten only by an associate of his, a player in Kirklees, and the horseas original owner on still another farm in Lancashire. But Labour warned there clearly was no actual proof the potentially dangerous meat hadn't been spread more widely. Bute is given to horses being an anti inflammatory, but may cause cancer in humans and is totally prohibited from entering the food chain across the EU. Figures this week revealed that not exactly 10,000 horses were killed and butchered due to their meat in British abattoirs last year. Only over 150 were tried for bute, with nine finding its way back good. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) moved to assure the public that anone of the meat have been put for sale in the UKa. However it has appeared that while most of the contaminated horsemeat was shipped to France, one carcase was split up and sent to two facilities in the north of England a one in Kirklees and another in Chorley, Lancashire. In a written Parliamentary answer, Health Minister Anna Soubry said the FSA had called the relevant local authorities as soon as it knew the meat was contaminated a' thought to be in September 2012. But she stated that when environmental health officers visited the farms involved, they were told the meat had been apurchased for private consumption a and had already been consumeda. FSA officials said yesterday evening that they had approved this version of events, adding that as his associate and the Yorkshire farmer had properly consumed their own horse, the meat was never actually sold in britain. But Ms Creagh, who's also MP for Wakefield, said people wouldn't be reassured that the foodstuff security system was working. aThe public must have confidence that the meals they buy is properly labelled, legal and safe,a she said. aDespite last weekas denials, the Food Standards Agency have now established that horsemeat contaminated with phenylbutazone a or bute a' has been used in the UK, despite it being barred from the human food chain. aThe Government, shops and the FSA want to get a hold and put down what actions they will decide to try ensure this doesn't occur again.a The bute disease could be the next horsemeat scandal to hit great BRITAIN in 2010, after records of horse were present in a range of store burgers last month. The FSA mentioned in a statement: aHorses treated with abutea aren't allowed to enter the foodstuff chain. The FSA carries out investigations in slaughterhouses to ensure that horses offered for slaughter are fit for human consumption. In 2012, cases were identified five by the FSA where horses came back non-compliant benefits. None of the meat had been placed for sale on great BRITAIN market.a

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