On 16/02/2013 08:39, harry wrote:
On Feb 15, 9:31 pm, alan wrote:
On 13/02/2013 09:06, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:



Looks like it's the Welsh now. Might have known.

Human DNA found in sheep?

You jest but judging by some in depth interviews on the radio they just
don't know what else is being sold as beef (or any other processed meat
product). They are only testing for horse, pig, sheep and chicken.
Anything else would not be found because they are not looking for it.
Your local Romanian undertaker's activity would not be detected with the
current testing regime.

What all this shows is that all these rules that cost so much to
create can't be enforced. The bigger and more complex the system, the
more likely things are to go wrong.
All EU ****e, inflicted on our own producers, ignored elsewhere.
Best out of the whole blasted, idiots shenanigan.


Seems that combined species and bute testing is expected to cost in the
region EUR 300 to 400 per test.

Given the comprehensive DNA analysis now available for around GBP 100
for humans (e.g. 23andme type of test), I thought that a DNA-chip based
testing system might have been a) possible; b) relatively inexpensive.
Though how much of the cost is to identify vanishingly low levels of bute?


"Horsemeat scandal: DNA tests start with immediate effect
By Joanna Sopinska | Friday 15 February 2013

The member states gave their green light, on 15 February, to the
immediate launch of an EU-wide DNA testing of beef in the wake of the
horsemeat scandal, which erupted in mid-January in Ireland and has
spread throughout Europe. The exercise, recommended by the Commission
(see Europolitics4587) on 13 February, was approved at the extraordinary
meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
with all member states except Italy in favour. The decision provides for
a one-month programme of DNA and phenylbutazone tests across the EU as
part of a bigger two-month action, starting “as soon as possible,”
rather than on 1 March as proposed. Co-financed by the Commission (75%
of costs, maximum €300 per test) the programme foresees controls, mainly
at retail level, of foods destined for the final consumer and marketed
as containing beef to detect the presence of unlabelled horse meat. A
total of 2,250 samples will be taken from across the EU (ten to 150 per
member state). One of the aims is to detect possible residues of
phenylbutazone in horse meat. To this end, each member state will carry
out a minimum of five tests, with one sample for every 50 tonnes of
horse meat. Member states will be obliged to “regularly” report the
results to the Commission, which will include them in the Rapid Alert
System for Food and Feed (RASFF). The full results of the programme will
be published by the Commission on 15 April. "

http://www.europolitics.info/horseme...art348312.html

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Rod