UPDATE: Newport firm's shock at horsemeat find (From South Wales Argus)
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UPDATE: Newport firm's shock at horsemeat find
1:30pm Wednesday 27th February 2013 in News
SHOCK DISCOVERY: Newport supplier Welsh Bros Ltd said it was "a huge shock" after horsemeat was found in the products it supplies to Pembrokeshire council
A NEWPORT supplier said it was "a huge shock" after horsemeat was found in the products supplies to a Welsh council.
Pembrokeshire council has withdrawn all mince products from its schools, care homes and day centres with immediate effect after horse was found in some of Welsh Bros Ltd's products.
Meat supplied by the Gwent firm to a consortium of councils - including Pembrokeshire - was found to have horse meat present after tests.
Council bosses from the West Wales local authority said they had been given assurances by their other suppliers that their meats were fully traceable.
Meanwhile, Welsh Bros described the horse meat find as a huge shock.
Managing director Alan Haycock, from the company based on the Leeway Industrial Estate, said: "We received an email about this last night.
"A test came back positive.
"We haven't seen the certificate yet.
"But this is all under investigation with trading standards now and we are waiting for further information.’’ It is believed the meat involved was distributed in December 2012.
"We're very busy contacting our customers now and letting them know,’’ added Mr Haycock.
Pembrokeshire Council said the mince "may’’ have been supplied to schools as well as council-run residential homes and day centres within the county, so it decided to withdraw the affected products.
Affected batch tested 'produced three months ago' - statement
Welsh Bros Ltd issued a formal statement saying: "The batch affected was produced nearly three months ago. Welsh Bros Foods did have a clear test result for frozen free flow minced beef on 17.01.13. We submitted these samples when the horse meat scandal first broke in January.
"We have since submitted further samples which we are still awaiting test results for.
"Welsh Bros has been provided with test results from other authorities who have tested more recent batches of our free flow minced beef and these have been reported as being clear.
"We therefore believe at this stage that this is an isolated incident.
"We have today issued a withdraw notice with the Food Standards Agency for frozen free flow minced beef produced between 13.12.12 which was the pack date of the suspect test and 17.01.13 which is the date we achieved our clear test result."
Comments(17)
coalpicker
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2:05pm Wed 27 Feb 13
of food been poisoning us for profit . I believe the common denominator is the many hundreds of new chemicals entering the environment every year and
through lackadaisical policing of the food chain, augmented by the profit regardless brigade, horse meat pretending to be beef is but an example,God alone knows what else we are being fed.
KarmaSuitsYa
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2:13pm Wed 27 Feb 13
Readthepaper
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2:37pm Wed 27 Feb 13
maninundy's
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2:37pm Wed 27 Feb 13
Goldy_Lookin_Clart
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3:13pm Wed 27 Feb 13
Is there a link like?
smokintheweed
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3:44pm Wed 27 Feb 13
KarmaSuitsYa wrote:Well aren't we the smug little git?
Hahaha - never been happier to be a vegetarian.
KarmaSuitsYa
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3:47pm Wed 27 Feb 13
smokintheweed wrote:lol - I've been practising
KarmaSuitsYa wrote:Well aren't we the smug little git?
Hahaha - never been happier to be a vegetarian.
spanner100
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3:48pm Wed 27 Feb 13
cath 872
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6:29pm Wed 27 Feb 13
Bobevans
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10:28pm Wed 27 Feb 13
KarmaSuitsYa wrote:CAncer rates amongst vegeterians are are the same as for meat eaters
Hahaha - never been happier to be a vegetarian.
MR DUDLEY
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11:23pm Wed 27 Feb 13
Katie Re-Registered
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11:40pm Wed 27 Feb 13
P C Neilson
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12:59pm Thu 28 Feb 13
Also it is well known that vegetarians are 75% less sexy than meat eaters, due to an over inflated self riteousness, caused by an anthropomorphized sissyfication of tasty, tasty animal meat.
Omnivores rule :-)
smokintheweed
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2:41pm Thu 28 Feb 13
P C Neilson wrote:Lol. Amen to that.
I hear that you would have eat an incredible amount of the drug affected horse, for it to be harmful. I'm more concerned about the wierd chicken products that get sold. They neither taste or resemble the texture of chicken meat.
Also it is well known that vegetarians are 75% less sexy than meat eaters, due to an over inflated self riteousness, caused by an anthropomorphized sissyfication of tasty, tasty animal meat.
Omnivores rule :-)
Dee-Gee
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12:25am Fri 1 Mar 13
Doesn't mean we're not eating god-knows-what of course, but don't let the cancer stat worry you. It's good news, of a sort.
coalpicker
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8:25am Fri 1 Mar 13
are developing catalitic converters, JOKE.
displayed says...
1:47pm Wed 27 Feb 13
Thats several firms now caught out on the trot!
If the shoe fits, wear it!
The problems is certainly galloping along, with no sign of it slowing down to a canter!
Personally I think the firms involved should hoof it out of here!
Clip, clop................
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