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Bute found in Asda corned beef

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meditrina · 09/04/2013 21:00

Gosh, that's worrying.

Not because the levels found in this case seem particularly risky. But that food safety controls have clearly not been working for it to be there at all.

What else, that we had believed excluded from human food, is going to be found?

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YourHandInMyHand · 09/04/2013 21:03

So as well as it having horse in it, it also has a veterinary medicine in it!?

So glad I don't eat corned beef!

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AnyaKnowIt · 09/04/2013 21:04

I thought the worst was over

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wannabedomesticgoddess · 09/04/2013 21:05

Considered buying that today (for the first time in ages) and so glad I didnt now.

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AnyaKnowIt · 09/04/2013 21:06

The chosen by you one has been recalled too

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AmberLeaf · 09/04/2013 21:08

Not just a veterinary medicine, it was used for years on humans with no ill effects for arthritis I think.

They stopped using it due to small numbers of people having adverse reactions.

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2013 21:10

Shock
Interesting to see what the 'no big deal' lot make of this.as plenty of us pointed out it wasn't the horse as much as the lack of control

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NiceTabard · 09/04/2013 21:45

I think one of the main issues with the horsemeat was about the drugs wasn't it?
Aside from the fact it was uncertified and therefore potentially diseased nag meat
And of course the fact that it wasn't supposed to be horse in the first place.

I'd be up for a bit of horse, they should have simply labelled it honestly.

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StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2013 22:02

Yes exactly. But people kept spectacularly missing the point saying things like "I don't know what all the hysteria is about eating horse, they eat it in France/I had it on holiday/it's just meat". When in fact no one was being hysterical just about the fact it was horse meat.

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NiceTabard · 09/04/2013 22:08

Oh well those people are thick innit Grin

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Smudging · 09/04/2013 22:43

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edam · 09/04/2013 22:50

I wondered how long it would take...

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edam · 09/04/2013 22:53

Maybe I should ask MN for a 'smug vegetarian' emoticon after all... Grin

Seriously am not smug about this, given many of the people I'm quite fond of are not vegetarians. But I have wondered why the FSA was getting away with the 'no danger to human health' claim when clearly there was a potential risk, given no-one knew how horsemeat had ended up in UK food for humans.

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tiggytape · 09/04/2013 23:42

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5318008 · 09/04/2013 23:56

Faaaaaaark

Tiggy, as always, measured and informative post. Thankyou

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Elf13 · 10/04/2013 15:13

Hello all :-) When I was pregnant I didn't take ibuprofen, a common household painkiller, as my GP told me it would cross the placenta and should be avoided. 'Bute' or phenylbutazone is a much stronger painkiller of the same family of drugs (NSAIDs). How can there be a safe level for pregnant women and babies no matter how minute the traces found?

PS I just sent this question to the Food Standards Authority on Twitter and intended to add #mumsnet, but I put #netmums instead blush Do forgive me!(I'm @elfiem )

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boxershorts · 18/04/2013 14:38

Only eatr it if you are ill with a horse cough

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