Friday, January 18, 2013

Horseburgers in Britain and Ireland

Regular hamburgers are delicious, but what about horse meat in burgers. Burgers from two different chains, had horse DNA in their meat. Studies were done to check for more horse DNA. The report showed that ten burgers had very low traces and some patties had pig meat, but one patty, from Britain's largest retailer Tesco, was 29% horse meat. Tesco pulled all their products from the company that had produced it. The Chief Executive of Irish Food Authority, Alan Reilly, said there was an explanation for the pig meat, but not horse meat. He also said, it is unacceptable to have horse meat and pig meat, so people wouldn't be enraged. There were no further reports of where the foreign meat came from.