In message , John Williamson
writes
Andy Champ wrote:
On 15/02/2013 14:35, wrote:
PCR assays for horse could be made cheap enough for widespread
surveillance,
but it's not really the right approach. If you have to figure out
after the fact
what animal it came from, you really don't know enough about the
suppliers.

What's the next yucky thing going to be that we then have to check
all meat for?
I'm not that bothered whether my beefburger turns out to be horse or
pork, so long as it is fit for human consumption. So no bute etc.

Which is the heart of the current problem. If it's not on the label,
then there is no control over what it is, or where it came from, and
you can't make an informed choice.

A local radio story today implicated a local horse abbatoir, and said
that two of the carcasses tested and on their way out yesterday tested
positive for Bute. These were destroyed after testing, but before they
left the site. This was not a routine test. This abbatoir sells horses
to the French market as food for humans, among other customers.

Someone said on Question time last night that you would have to have
eaten 6 horses to get an effect in a human#


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geoff