Horse meat from Ireland is back in the news, after dioxins
were detected in chilled Irish horse meat distributed to other EU countries.
It has been classed as a serious food risk in the EU’s Rapid
Alert System for Food and Feed.
It was confirmed in May that dioxins, which are
environmental pollutants, were found at a level of 27.18 ng/kg (21.8 parts per
trillion) in chilled Irish horse meat.
Only one instance was reported in the EU’s Rapid Alert
System for Food and Feed, so it is probably an isolated incident.
However, it combines two of Ireland’s worst food scares.
In 2008, all Irish pork products were removed from
international shelves due to contamination after pigs were fed
dioxin-contaminated feed made from bakery waste which was direct heated with
oil fuel containing dioxins -- a repeat of a Belgian contamination incident
nearly ten years before.
Then, in 2013, the horsemeat saga erupted after DNA tests
showed a Tesco budget burger was found to have almost 30% horse meat.
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