On 16/02/2013 09:39, John Williamson wrote:
geoff wrote:
In message , John Williamson
writes
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#


And Bute is used in the treatment of some conditions in humans too, but
under a different name. I've heard the "Five or six hundred burgers made
entirely of horsemeat in one day to reach the levels used in treatment
of humans" claim as well, it was one of the favourite quotes used on my
local BBC radio station yesterday.

The fact remains that it is illegal for horses treated with Bute to ever
enter the human food chain, no matter how small the residue might be, so
the abbatoir was beaking the law by selling the contaminated carcasses
as food for people. It's okay to sell it as dogfood, though...

Odd that - because a while back I remember seeing person/people eating
pet food on television with the express statement that all UK pet food
must be of human food quality... And that pet food taster was a real job.

Pork pies somewhere... (If they are in fact pork?)

--
Rod