Food watchdog warned of horse DNA danger
In the email of Jan 9, released to the Irish Examiner under freedom of information, Prof Alan Reilly of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) wrote to two people in the Department of Health, giving them a breakdown as to the testing process which uncovered the 29.1% so-called horse burger sold in Tesco, as well as other positive tests.
“The presence of equine and porcine DNA in beef burgers may be due to accidental contamination that could have occurred in a boning hall if horsemeat and beef were being boned at the same time,” he wrote.
