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Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]
You joking? this is the country who gave the world BSE
They didn't actually 'give the world BSE', it was around a long time before that outbreak. They were however completely open about it. No whitewash, supermarket shelves empty, and the world media being answered rather than fobbed off. And now people know it is safe.
It is obvious that governments in question and companies are doing everything to blame somebody else, just that stigma wouldn't be attached to their firm or their country.
Several firms are doing that. Only one country.
he routine usage of medications in horses banned in food animals, and the lack of tracking of this usage in horses. Unlike livestock raised for food, where all potential medications are tested for withdrawal times; approved or banned for usage, and vigilantly tracked for each animal, there is no way to guarantee which medications have or have not been used in a particular horse
Spot on. Fallen racehorses may be flown to Paris by lunchtime. There's no suggestion though that the Polish company was using Nijinsky.
Really the best way forward is to forget the normal Polish bureaucratic obfuscation and be completely open and pro-active about it. Only then will consumers in such an important market start to trust the rest of Polish meat products again.
It seems that some people prefer to get outraged at a perceived slight at their country than safeguard the livelihoods of people who work in the industry.
