What is dangerous for our health horsemeat?

Britain continues to shake the scandal associated with the detection of horse meat in beef products. Everyone knows that the use of meat instead of another is a serious offense, but whether it threatens human health horsemeat?

The UK authorities continue to investigate to determine sources of beef and products from it, in which were found marks horsemeat . Horse meat content in some of these products exceeds 50% and even 60%. Minister of Environmental Protection UK Owen Paterson said that horse meat can be dangerous to human health.

"While we have not yet received firm evidence of danger horsemeat And it is only an abuse of the process and of the deception of customers, - said the minister. - But this week, we will come to the test results, and we know it is dangerous for horse meat for anyone of us. Tests to help determine whether there is meat in the veterinary medicine phenylbutazone. "

By European standards, the animals receiving the drug should not be placed on the meat-packing plants, where their meat can then cater to retailers. In this regard, some members of the British Parliament has urged to introduce a temporary ban on the sale of any processed or frozen meat from the EU, it is the source of infection can not be detected. But EU rules prohibit such restrictions.

Recall that beef containing horse meat was found in the UK and in France. There is a theory that the meat was delivered from the Romanian meat processing plants. (READ MORE)

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