Hull and East Riding Councils assured school meals don't contain horse meat

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Friday, February 15, 2013
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SUPPLIERS to East Yorkshire schools have offered assurances that children's meals do not contain horse meat.

Hull and East Riding Councils contacted their suppliers to seek assurances in the wake of the growing horse meat scandal.

  1. Scandal:  Suppliers to East  Yorkshire schools have offered assurances that children's meals do not contain horse meat.

    Scandal: Suppliers to East Yorkshire schools have offered assurances that children's meals do not contain horse meat.

More than ten million products have been removed from supermarket shelves nationally following the discovery of horse DNA in Irish-made beef burgers last month.

Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Iceland and Findus have all had to withdraw processed beef products because of the undetected horse meat they contained.

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On Wednesday, wholesaler Makro was the latest company to be affected.

Now, Hull and East Riding councils have revealed they have had assurances the food children are eating at school does not contain horse meat.

Ian Anderson, the city council's town clerk, said: "Hull City Council has obtained assurances from our sole supplier, which has statements from their suppliers, to verify that the meat used in school meals does not contain horse DNA."

East Riding Council contacted each of their suppliers and asked for written confirmation the meat used to make its school meals did not contain horse.

A spokesman said: "Written confirmation has been received from all our meat suppliers that they comply with all current regulations and that they do not process or use equine meat in their products.

"However, this refers solely to local authority establishments that purchase from council-approved food suppliers and does not include establishments such as academy schools, PFI schools and schools and other services that procure their own food and drink."

As the scandal over the discovery of horse meat intensifies, companies have been asked by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to carry out tests on a range of products to establish the extent of the contamination.

Two meat-processing plants were temporarily shut down by the FSA amid claims they supplied and used horse carcasses in burgers.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has indicated the rules will now be tightened.

A spokesman said: "Once we have established the full facts, we will take what ever action necessary so this unacceptable situation cannot happen again."

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    by glen1954

    Friday, February 15 2013, 10:26PM

    “I would be more worried if the kids had been drinking coke or eating a mars bar each day,a bit of horse meat is the last thing to worry about in schoolkids diet.”

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    by Manitou

    Friday, February 15 2013, 7:05PM

    “Probably better than usual meals”

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    by David_Nivea

    Friday, February 15 2013, 3:33PM

    “"Hull City Council has obtained assurances from our sole supplier..."

    Are they on about seahorse meat then?

    Something a bit fishy here.”

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    by DanAllenT1

    Friday, February 15 2013, 1:36PM

    “[comment continued] ... Afterwards, the slaves destroyed all supposedly genuine scripture relating to this belief, and agreed to never speak of it again. Giant Sphynx's would be the only true remainder of the times. A handful of people chose to pass the story down through the generations though, and to this day there are families who still believe that humans can indeed become what they eat. The term 'Eagle-Eyed' is the very reason that particular bird of prey is an endangered species, and there is a direct correlation between the use of 'crocodile tears' in common language and the dwindling number of crocodiles across the globe. It is also the reason we don't eat cats anymore, and why they now treat humans like the utter *******s we are. The joint UK/US research was inconclusive as far as fact was concerned, but their discovery of this myth led them to believe there was more behind the phrase, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" than first thought. They somehow bumbled to the conclusion that the phrase began life as "I need to jump so high I should eat a horse", causing them to secretly introduce horse meat into everyday diets where ever possible as a means of, quite literally, getting 'the jump' on any encroaching enemy forces when the time came. Reports claim soldiers were capable of leaping some 20-foot in the air during WW2, but evidence is inconclusive. Some of those Egyptian descendants are still in power across the EU, and still believe that harnessing horse power is our best chance to become more powerful. Hence why even our cars are measured on "horse power". We are usually secretly fed a lot of horse whenever an attack is predicted, just to prepare us. This recent spurt is a measure of protection against potential alien visitors following the Mayan prophecy. Others will be blamed and it will pass. Fact.”

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    by DanAllenT1

    Friday, February 15 2013, 1:35PM

    “This whole equine affair is a conspiracy of epic (pro)portions (harf harf!). However, to think it is a mistake we're being fed this horse meat is to admit utter ignorance towards the history of mankind's evolution. It is a well known, albeit little documented, fact that the US and UK governments joined forces in the pre-war early 1900's to determine the source of the famous phrase, "You are what you eat", and discovered a legend dictating that every human had the ability to shape-shift into the animals they consume, assuming the animal had the correct balance of nutrients and led a life that put them into the positive Karma zone. By being a good animal, apparently we could unlock their potential ourselves, taking on their form whenever we wish. This common myth is well documented along the walls of Egyptian pyramids, where ancient hieroglyphs depict man grooming, consuming, and transforming into cat like creatures while the women stand by and watch, ready to wash the dishes afterwards - a tougher challenge than it sounds in the pre-Fairy Liquid days. Mistranslated texts depict felines as god like creatures during the Egyptian rising, but in actual fact they were groomed and forced into a life of obedience and kindness, often ritually performing acts of self sacrifice to reaffirm their place on the positive side of Karmic alignment. Many cats were consumed, but nobody showed signs of transformation, beyond people occasionally pretending to purr a bit while rubbing their cheeks on the side of pyramids. When the great prince Imohtep came into power and adopted this methodology as his religion, he was disheartened to discover scriptures confirming the belief of human shape-shifting to be false. Knowing the power religion holds, he attempted to deceive his followers by one day emerging from his home wearing a realistic cat mask, which was made using the skin of the dead with patches of pubic hair tossed on for realistic effect. It worked a little too well. The slaves were so scared at the sight of their now half-feline leader that they killed and burned him on sight, melting the mask to his fiery flesh as if it was an actual part of his face...”

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    by unified

    Friday, February 15 2013, 10:36AM

    “Contacted
    Suppliers have they.
    Asda and all the others thought they were safe from horse meat because they asked their suppliers.”

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    by dontwo

    Friday, February 15 2013, 7:27AM

    “Contacted their suppliers to seek assurances have they?. Thats about as reassuring as toothache when the recent news shows the tricks and cons some crooked suppliers and distributors have been up to. Only recently, a well known supermarkets own brand lager was tested and found to contain 95 per cent horse wee.”

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