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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10787

16 February 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) consumers
Horsemeat fraud - EU27 want rigorous testing

Brussels, 15/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - Everyone is rushing to their battle-stations in the scandal over horsemeat sold as beef. EU27 experts agreed, on Friday 15 February, to the battery of DNA testing on processed food that is supposed to contain beef, and to tests for the detection of phenylbutazone (“bute”) - the anti-inflammatory administered to race horses but banned for human consumption due to its toxicity (see EUROPE 10786 and 10785). In so doing, the Standing Committee of the...

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