The latest statement this morning
Tesco: Burger supplier used meat not from approved suppliers
Tesco says that its investigation into how horse DNA was found in three of its frozen beef burger lines has found that its supplier used meat from outside the UK and Ireland.
The evidence tells us that our frozen burger supplier, Silver crest, used meat in our products that did not come from the list of approved suppliers we gave them.
Nor was the meat from the UK or Ireland, despite our instruction that only beef from the UK and Ireland should be used in our frozen beef burgers.
Consequently we have decided not to take products from that supplier in future.
We took that decision with regret but the breach of trust is simply too great.
? TIM SMITH, TESCO GROUP TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Silver crest huge supplier and why would they jeopardise such huge contract and they deny blame.
If its not irish or british which country is it from?
who was the supplier to silver crest
was it safe deemed fit for human consumption.
I thourght the food standards agency said it came from protein fillers from europe so ground up horse bones maybe not horse meat as term was dna 29% in tesco only. I just assumed Tesco used addition fillers than other retailers.
house commons discussing later but something doesnt seem right.
Hope Tesco and silver crest get a grilling but reckon if was unsafe they will never risk telling us will be covered up.
Baffled me when y they declared safe not knowing where came from in the first place but damage is done.
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mam29 · 30/01/2013 09:35
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