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POLISH INVESTIGATORS FOUND ‘green and rotting meat’ in an Irish food plant in Co. Monaghan which they say was ‘not fit for human consumption’.
The Guardian reports that the meat was found in the Silvercrest factory in Ballybay, Co. Monaghan but that the Department of Agriculture and ABP Food Group say that the meat was only rotting because it was being stored for inspection as part of investigations into horsemeat.
The 30-page-report was compiled by the Polish chief veterinary officer and included a formal visit by inspectors to Irish plants implicated in the horsemeat scandal.
“What I saw was clearly unfit for human consumption,” Inspector Katarzyna Piskorz is quoted as saying.
It was part of a bigger consignment but I was told the rest of it had already been used. I asked why the factory managers had not noticed the state of it, but was told they had not seen any problem.
But ABP has said in statement today that claims that the meat in question could have entered the food supply chain are “entirely without foundation”:
The meat referred to in the report was being stored under quarantine conditions following a Department of Agriculture inspection over the three weeks prior to the Polish visit. The condition of the meat and packaging in the report’s photographs are a direct result of the storage conditions, movement of the pallets, and removal of packaging for testing.
“Photographs or analysis of the meat’s appearance over 3 weeks after its removal from the supply chain cannot credibly be used to draw any conclusions about the integrity of meat,” they add.
APB have also launched a legal action against Polish food suppliers following the horsemeat scandal and Tesco also dropped the plant as a supplier after the discovery of horse in some beef burgers.
The company says that there is a “significant body of evidence” which suggests that Poland was the source of at least some of the contaminated meat.
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Sounds like the Polish want to turn the focus away from their own problems…
There’s allot of people pissed off that the Irish brought the horse-meat issue to the public’s attention…
If they were storing for inspection, why wasn’t it frozen in its present condition?
Probably they were using it to keep the flies off the other meat…..yuch!
Rotten meat shouldn’t be even on the same premises that meat for human consumption is being prepared…
Probably just a sprinkle of parsley for seasoning – yea that’ll do
Something is rotten in the state of Monaghan.
Green?
Is Goodman now trying to pass frog meat of as beef?
The Journal article is tabloid and misleading, as usual, trying to dumb down. Here’s a link to the original article, clearly, there is a case to answer, just like the banks, political establishment and big business in Ireland, rotten to the core
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/24/rotting-meat-irish-burgers-horsemeat-polish-report
Its one way of turning meat green for Paddys day…
Green Food Dye tastes funny.
That meat was probably going to be used for mince. Fresh blood is poured over bad meat and sold as mince…
Wish you hadn’t told me that.
Why? You’ve prob been eating stuff like that all your life. But it never bothered you until now, when you found out!
Old saying, “what you don’t know,shouldn’t trouble you”.
Someone could be whacking off in the mayonnaise but I wouldn’t want to eat it after I found out.
As a butcher I have to ask you where did you hear that?it wouldn’t work at all
Deport them
You should probably take a moment to read the article
So the Department of Agriculture sided with ABP. No surprise there and no surprise at the lack of prosecutions.
And we still have people telling us that Coveney would make a fine Taoiseach! Of course, there is not much of a choice!
They should have disposed of it immediately and not have it kept in storage for three weeks.
The Inspector is a ” Good man ” to spot it!
if another reason was needed……go veggie……you meat eaters (couldn’t spell carnavoirs!) haven’t a clue what you are eating for feeding your children…..wise up before its too late.
What’s with all the dots between words?
Must be a nervous tick from the lack of meat in the diet.
Rows of carrot seeds?
Yeah, sure you lot go ahead and cut down the rain forests to plant soy. Muppet.
Well instead of buying your meat in a crappy supermarket why not go to your local butcher where your meat has come from
Does all meat not come from animals. Is there anywhere else it comes from? Please tell me?
Yes it all comes from animals but not the same quality supermarkets buy their meat from large boning factory’s .Most of these place will never hang a beast for 21 days or longer depending on your taste.
Meat(h)?
It was probably vegetarian meat.
A lot of meat is naturally green. We’ve been nanny-whipped into expecting it to look red or brown by decades of artificial preservatives, which are actually terrible for us. Just like with the tomatoes.
Meat is red because of the myoglobin content. No meat is green.
Some meat is red because of the myoglobin content. Thankfully not all meat contains myoglobin.
All meat contains myoglobin, just different levels. That’s why chicken is lighter that beef. :)
No it doesn’t. :)
Condemned meat is usually sprayed with a green dye. Dept vet inspectors spend most of their time in slaughter plants. Manufacturing plants aren’t scrutinised to the same extent.
De ja vu.
Cheesy … Rotten horse meat in our burgers
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