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Irish minister points the finger at Poland over horse meat controversy

28/01/2013
Ireland’s minister for agriculture, Simon Coveney, has announced “a major breakthrough” in the investigations into the presence of horse meat in a number of burger products manufactured in Ireland for retail groups there and in the UK.

Mr Coveney said tests proved that the horse meat, which made up 20% of the meat content in some of the products, had come from raw materials imported into Ireland from Poland. The investigations have uncovered no evidence that the Irish manufacturer involved, ABP Foods, had deliberately used horse meat in its production processes.

ABP has said it will put a new management team into its meat processing factory in County Monaghan.


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