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The second major UK report on the horse meat incident was conducted by Professor Chris Elliott, the Director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. In his independent report he argues that food crime was at the heart of the horse meat incident: and made a range of suggestions for how this could be tackled.
The 2013 horse meat contamination scandal – Horsegate was one of the names given to the 2013 meat scare, in which horsemeat was found in prepared frozen meat products and ready meals that were said to contain beef. Also known as the "Horsemeatgate" and "Findusgate", after one of the companies that made the ready meals.
The sale of meat labelled as horse meat in UK supermarkets and butchers is minimal, and most actual horse meat consumed in the UK is imported from continental Europe, predominantly from the south of France, where it is more widely eaten. [122] Horse meat was featured in a segment of a 2007 episode of the Gordon Ramsay series The F Word.
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Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK are being undermined by post-Brexit border checks, a senior health official has said. The boss of the Dover Port Health Authority said ...
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In Canada, horse meat is legal. Most Canadian horse meat is exported to Continental Europe or Japan. [84] In the United States, sale and consumption of horse meat is illegal in California [85] and Illinois. [86] However, it was sold in the US during WW II, since beef was expensive, rationed and destined for the troops. The last horse meat ...
Argentina does not allow horses to be consumed domestically, but is the largest global exporter of horse meat, the country's trade data shows. Government data shows that last year, more than ...