"bert" ] wrote in message
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In message , Rod Speed
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"polygonum" wrote in message
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On 15/02/2013 14:35, wrote:
On Friday, February 8, 2013 12:46:45 PM UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:


What I find rather disturbing is that no one in the whole long supply

chain, from abattoir to retail outlet, appears to have been routinely

testing that a batch of meat or product called "beef" really is 100%

beef.

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?


Leo

Isn't that arse about face? We shouldn't be checking that beef isn't
horse - but that beef positively is beef! Anything else is not
acceptable.

Dunno, with some stuff like lasagne etc, does it really matter what
meat it is as long as its not dead rats, cats, dogs, diseased nags etc ?

2 separate issues.

Yes.

Is it fit for human consumption and will not do you physical harm.

Even that last isnt black and white.

Secondly, are you actually buying what you are being told you are buying
and so you can make a choice about what you buy.

Sure, but with some of those, you wont care. I don't care
if I chose to buy what is described as quite old beef and
end up getting younger stuff instead because they didn't
have enough of the cheap old stuff at the time etc.