Horsemeat

Kenai said:
Is that fresh meat or all meat?

Sounds like this is a frozen 'value' product, possibly not even a tesco branded item as whilst they say it was found in tesco, they don't go as far as saying it was a tesco product.
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Err, they are pretty much about as branded Tesco as they come:

According to the research by the FSAI, one sample of burger goods, Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, showed about 29 per cent horse meat relative to beef content.
'Whilst there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same meat plants, there is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horse meat in their production process,' Prof Reilly said.


Source FSA, reported by Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-UK-Ireland-supermarkets-including-Tesco.html
 
Nexus said:
Err, they are pretty much about as branded Tesco as they come:

According to the research by the FSAI, one sample of burger goods, Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, showed about 29 per cent horse meat relative to beef content.
'Whilst there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same meat plants, there is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horse meat in their production process,' Prof Reilly said.


Source FSA, reported by Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-UK-Ireland-supermarkets-including-Tesco.html
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Fair enough, the BBC didn't go as far as quoting the name "Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers"
 
Kenai said:
...and Iceland and Dunnes and Lidl and Aldi, all in the link in the OP.

They've hardly just namedropped Tesco in isolation.
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I know, I did read the article and post it here.

We just seemed to have honed in on Tesco - probably because of the high percentage - as an example of this apparent disconnect between product buying and resale and origins, or not..
 
Daily fail is useful for something, they have the full list
Horse was found in Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, Tesco Beef Quarter Pounders, Oakhurst Beef Burgers in Aldi and Moordale Quarter Pounders in Lidl
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Kenai said:
He's mocking Glaucus lack of effort in correcting the numerous mistakes 'his iPad' makes, I would presume :p
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It looks too real for that. Or is this too much double think?

Yeah Acidhell went from 'decent contributor' to 'he's drawing on the wall with crayons again' a long time ago now.

:p
 
Any meat with tesco brand name on it has to be from a tesco certified farm.

All tesco meat is clearly labeled. The label will include

Type of meat
Cut
Source location/farm
Kill date
Butcher date
Date shipped

Can't be a tesco branded product imo (their audit team truly are the most anal people ive had the misfortune of dealing with)
 
'Harry said:
Any meat with tesco brand name on it has to be from a tesco certified farm.

All tesco meat is clearly labeled. The label will include

Type of meat
Cut
Source location/farm
Kill date
Butcher date
Date shipped

Can't be a tesco branded product imo (their audit team truly are the most anal people ive had the misfortune of dealing with)
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it is present in a tesco branded product.... albeit a tesco value one
 
Seems they've updated the ingredients list:

Beef (63%), Paddy's Old Knacker (29%), Onion (10%) ,Wheat Flour ,Water ,Beef Fat ,Soya Protein Isolate ,Salt ,Onion Powder ,Yeast ,Sugar ,Barley Malt Extract ,Garlic Powder ,White Pepper Extract ,Celery Extract ,Onion Extract
 
Interesting.

Has to be an issue at source then.

As for the product being 'value' - that doesn't matter. All processed products use the same meat no matter what price range it falls in. All that changes is water content and 'filler' (reworked product/husk etc)
 
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