Horse meat scandal: Hull firm Flexi Foods responds to claims it sold contaminated Polish meat
A HULL firm has responded to allegations it imported beef contaminated with horse from Poland.
Flexi Foods, in Inglemire Lane, sold the meat to Irish company McAdam Foods.
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Flexi Foods sold the meat to Irish company McAdam Foods.
Tests in September showed samples contained up to 80 per cent horse.
The scandal has led to burgers being withdrawn from the shelves of Tesco, Asda, the Co-Op and Sainsbury's.
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A spokeswoman for Rradar, a law firm acting for Flexi Foods, said: "We are aware of an on-going, wide-ranging Food Standard Agency investigation.
"We have been asked to supply some information in relation to only one part of this investigation, with which we are quite voluntarily co-operating.
"We feel it would not be fair, nor appropriate, to comment any further whilst the authorities continue with their much wider investigations."
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by Scoff_Cruddle
Monday, February 11 2013, 10:55AM
“This scandal was known to people in the investment world many months ago as 'Food Fraud'.
It was common knowledge that the volume and weight of items had decreased to maintain prices and fool the public, then producers started to find cheaper ways to produce the same foodstuffs to maintain profit margins.”
by vandriver1
Sunday, February 10 2013, 9:14PM
“yuk
nearly bought 1 of them findus lasagne last week in asda
glad i never now
just been in today and all removed from the freezers”
by ArthurHunt
Sunday, February 10 2013, 10:11AM
“Sorry - forgot to add - it's over 5 years since I worked in that industry but the other thing they are keeping extremely quiet about is Halal. Regardless of your religious or political views you all have a right to know Halal meat is everywhere and how they kill animals is utterly barbaric. You've ALL eaten Halal whether you like it or not...
And i totally agree with Male_sports - overpopulation will kill us all but before it does we will all go through hell. And not one politician speaks out.....
Some good undercover journalism will do the public a favour... unless the journalists themselves end up in sausages..... (I kid you not)”
by ArthurHunt
Saturday, February 09 2013, 11:06PM
“Having once been a Quality Controller at a meat processing factory, let me tell you, you are under all sorts of pressure to 'look the other way'. Bribery is commonplace, all this fuss about horse meat comes down to one thing, and one thing only - MONEY. If you think they should be DNA testing for horse you ain't seen nothing yet, donkey is a regular ingredient of salami, and seeing as the world has effectively shrunk with mass communication, the internet, migration etc, you have all probably eaten monkey and dog. It's all about mashing meat up beyond recognition adding spices and colour and selling it for the highest price you can. Quality control is a joke, we are always over ruled by either production - get it out the door at all cost, purchasing (to use cheap cr*p) or accountants.
Horse meat may well be acceptable to some, and if so sell it as horse meat. What I object to is the public being conned.
But wait until DNA looks for the meats I have mentioned (and some I haven't like crow and bat) get found in meat, the whole house of cards will collapse.
If it wasn't for my dear wife always insisting on meat I would go veggie.... I back davecheale all the way...”
by davecheale
Saturday, February 09 2013, 12:24PM
“"he meat industry protect so many scandals that just last year have been secretly filmed, its a fact meat egg dairy industries are init for profit,the regulators spend vast amounts on advertising to brainwash the public into what we eat, where we go, when to do, make it taste to sell etc, Why are people so dead inside how did we get this lost and blind to the beauty of these animals all animals none of them we need to eat to survive, after working in my dads butcher trade i studied the human body and nature, i ate nothing but a plant based diet afterwards, that was 40 years ago and i dont know what illness means, and i have allowed my self to think for myself, and act for myself, and make the connection to real life, we are all extraordinary and have the ability at some point in out lives to make decisions, you either take the right one or you follow the road to hell walk asleep,"”
by sabboo
Saturday, February 09 2013, 10:58AM
“does anyone know if this company is still accepting horse? the ****s have several untethered on our allotments that they wouldn't miss!”
by Blakey_
Saturday, February 09 2013, 10:51AM
“If you think the Horse Burgers are bad, wait until you see their Unicorn on the Cob.”
by profanity
Saturday, February 09 2013, 6:32AM
“Just a Lassoogna for me.”
by Astran
Saturday, February 09 2013, 3:31AM
“Well i hope Cameron doesnt decide to set up a British Union of Lamb and Legal Steak or Horse Independant Tax (acronym) quango ,and decide to charge the public £20 per bedroom for hiding old horses from the abbatoirs.”
by CalendarGirl
Saturday, February 09 2013, 2:55AM
“I'm sure if Heston Bloomentile slung these bad boys on his Barby we not be saying "neeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh" alas we would be saddling and kicking our heels for a slice Lady Godivers fillies rump!!
Pig, chicken, calf or horse. .................We ALL LOVE our meaty main course!!!
Vet you're all gonna have Yorkshire's with it on Sunday!! No matter what the two veg!!!
*Bet*.....hahahahaha Ohhhh the irony!!! ....Tickled pink!! if that is not PC enough for you hat tilting soap box jumpers! then trot on!!”