[DIYbio] Re: diybio testing for horsemeat

RTFM (or in this case some recent news articles).
The horse meat is not known to be human-safe, for example as the horses are treated medically (steroids? antibiotics?  growth hormones?) which remain in the meat and pass onto humans.  Go eat a wild horse, maybe fine, depending on what it was eating during it's lifetime.  Go eat one not certified as safe meat and you could be eating medicines or diseases.  

Ref: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/10/contaminated-horsemeat-harm-health

""Last week it emerged that Findus lasagne contained up to 100% horsemeat. ""

""Paterson agreed there would be a whole new ball game if horsemeat had come from Romania contaminated with equine anaemia, known as "horse Aids" even though it is not harmful to humans.""

It is similar to the melamine scandal since this is not an accidental problem but obvious fraud for financial gain.   Suppliers purposely sold unqualified meat.   Then perhaps ironically the meat found it's way into all kinds of processed foods which maybe the suppliers' own children ate, since there is no traceability.  D'oh!


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