Following the European horsemeat scandal that sent shock waves around the world at the beginning of the year, the European commission ordered tests for horse DNA in meat products. Sources say that France, according to the test results, was the country with the highest number of illegal horsemeat cases with a total percentage greater than 13% of the samples that were observed. Greece recorded second highest illegal cases of the samples tested turning up positive for horse DNA, with Germany’s 29 out of 867 samples being tainted.
The Commission is expected to publicly release the results on Tuesday evening, but according to a statement they circulated, the whole EU bloc recorded that 5% of the beef samples tested had traces of horse DNA. After the release of the results, Jean-Rene Buisson, the man at the head of France’s Food organizations said that the results reflected a grim image of the food industry. He worries that the findings might lead to further delayed customer confidence in the industry efforts to clean up the mess. For him, it’s also important that the researchers show in the report the exact quantity of DNA spotted, since minute traces could have turned up due to accidental contamination.
The program also showed that Britain was most clear of the scandal with none of the 150 issued tests turning up positive. However, the results recorded that the country has the largest percentage of the potentially dangerous drug, Bute, which is administered to horses. In the larger EU-bloc the percentage was 0.6% positive for Bute. Experts however, spoke assuring that the levels detected were not high enough to cause harmful effects to humans. In tandem with the program are investigations being carried out by the police in a bid to catch illegal distributors of the horsemeat claiming that it is beef.
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