'Traces of pork DNA' found in Halal prison meat

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6. Another triumph for Tory light touch regulation ?

These contaminated food scandals mysteriously always seem to occur on their watch.

Last time they almost wiped out a lot of British farmers because of their mishandling of the BSE crisis

As usual the UK FSA is busily slamming all the stable door after all the horse and pork meat has found its way into products that are not supposed to contain either of them. One suspects they would have done nothing if it had not been for their Irish counterpart alerting them to the issue.

Of course, halal products are not only not supposed to not contain pork they are also supposed to have been certificated as being slaughtered according to halal rules which one assumes not be done at an abbatoir used to process pigs and then turned into products according that meet Islamic dietary rules This suggests the contamination may be due to fraud rather than just oversight as pork would be a cheap way of bulking out a more expensive meat product.

The MoJ apparently have suspended the supplier but not named them. One wonders if ABP subsidiaries are involved here as well as in the horse meat scandal.