Aldi confirms up to 100% horsemeat in beef products

[adirondacker]

"Supermarket says it is angry with supplier Comigel after tests reveal 30% and 100% horsemeat in withdrawn ready meals

The environment secretary is due to meet the Food Standards Agency, food suppliers and retailers on Saturday to discuss the horsemeat scandal after Aldi became the latest supermarket to confirm its withdrawn beef products contained up to 100% horsemeat.

Owen Paterson said it was unacceptable that consumers were mis-sold products, but that the problems originated overseas.

"We believe that the two particular cases of the frozen burgers from Tesco and the lasagne from Findus are linked to suppliers in Ireland and France respectively. We and the Food Standards Agency are working closely with the authorities in these countries, as well as with Europol, to get to the root of the problem," he said.

Paterson said he believed the food was safe but urged consumers to return products to the retailers. "The French authorities are saying they are viewing the issue as a case of fraud rather than food safety. Anyone who has these products in their freezer should return them to retailers as a precaution."."

Aldi said it felt "angry and let down" by its French supplier Comigel after tests on Today's Special frozen beef lasagne and Today's Special frozen spaghetti bolognese found they contained between 30% and 100% horsemeat.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/09/aldi-100-percent-horsemeat-beef-products

Comigel, which also produced the contaminated Findus beef lasagnes, has blamed its suppliers. Erick Lehagre said he believed his company was buying French beef from a company called Spanghero but it had since told him it had come from Romania.

I can't wait to see what's in hotdogs after the TPP and TPIP is passed.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. You already don't want to know what is in hot dogs....imported or not!

[pangaia]

3. true that !!

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. Rule number one of hot dog eating....if you are worried about what is in your hot dog......

you really probably shouldn't be eating hot dogs in the first placel! Its THAT kind of food!

[tritsofme]

10. Unless you are in Chicago!

Vienna hot dogs, the best in the world, are 100% beef!

[VanillaRhapsody]

14. you STILL don't want to know what goes into that hot dog!!!!!

beef or no!

[AngryAmish]

16. No, i have walked their floor.

All are recognizable cuts of beef. No buckets of anus slurry or anything like that.

[VanillaRhapsody]

22. okay...if you say so....I know some people that work for Campbell Soups too....

you don't want to hear the stories they tell.....just saying....

Part of the attraction of eating a hot dog.....is the mystery of the meat. You eat them to defy health.....not for the good of it.....a healthy hot dog? Why bother? But if you are a meat eater....and you eat one now and again...its not going to matter much in the grand scheme of things....and enjoying one is the tiny bit of danger they represent!

It is a sausage after all.....you don't want to know about the "sausage making"...

[AngryAmish]

26. I make sausage.

Cooking is a hobby. Get the Fatted Calf's "In Thr Cgarcuterie". A fantastic resource.

It is not disgusting.

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. you make sausage for YOU.....

just saying....maybe YOURS isn't.....just sayin'. I wasn't talking about your sausage....

[AngryAmish]

28. Let us all discuss my sausage.

I have pictures available.

[cwydro]

38. Weiner?

Is that you?



Thank you for giving me a giggle before bed!

[Drahthaardogs]

33. IF you buy your food from a shitty place you get shitty food

HOt dogs are just emulsifide sausages, a technique known as force meat. A similar product is mortadella, but it is always a high end meat. Buy your hotdogs from a real butcher who makes his own and you have nothing to worry about. Buy it from Hormel, you get what you pay for.

[VanillaRhapsody]

46. Oh good grief....we are talking about "commercial" hot dogs....not your favorite Specialty

I still do not eat the occasional hot dog because they are "healthy". Like I said....if you are that concerned about "healthy" maybe you should consider another type of food instead (your gourmet hot dog sensibilities non-withstanding)

[RebelOne]

32. I am a vegetarian now, but even in my meat-eating days,

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I would never eat hot dogs because I knew what was in them.

[MADem]

36. Kosher hot dogs are the way to go.... nt

[nomorenomore08]

42. There's always Hebrew National... Though who knows what part of the cow they use... n/t

[Scootaloo]

2. You hit it square.

I can't wait to see what's in hotdogs after the TPP and TPIP is passed.

this is an inevitable result of "free trade." The nation with the loosest regulation and least transparency inevitably sets the stadnard for everyone in the agreement.

[adirondacker]

9. Thanks Scoot. Glad some are paying attention.

And again it will effect the poor the most. Cheap meat for the masses.

[L0oniX]

41. They are working on keeping us from knowing where the bullshit comes from.

[adirondacker]

45. They shall be named The Wizards of Bunghole.

[Laffy Kat]

4. It IS a safety issue.

There are a lot of people out there allergic to horse protein.

[cwydro]

8. I gotta ask...

how does one find out that one is allergic to horse protein?

[Jamastiene]

25. I'm not sure, but I would imagine most allergy tests

that doctors give include various proteins to check for allergies to that protein. Maybe the horse protein is in the allergy tests? I'm not sure if that is the case. I would like to know for sure too. Good question.

[cwydro]

30. Well, that's why I wondered lol.

I've suffered from allergies my entire life.

When I was tested as a child, I learned I was allergic to dogs, cats, horses, feathers, dust, and pretty much anything that grows on earth lol.

Of course, I have two dogs, three cats, numerous chickens (though I can't sleep on a feather pillow).

But I was never tested for any proteins that I know of. Well, eggs I guess. Yes allergic to those too. But I eat them.

No desire to eat a horse at all. Or a cow for that matter.

[Jackpine Radical]

29. Eat a horse.

You will find out.

[cwydro]

31. Noooo!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

48. I think I saw that video.

[Laffy Kat]

37. I suppose the hard way.

When I was growing up we had a dog that was allergic to eggs, so she could only receive vaccines made with horse serum. Unfortunately, that sensitized her to horse and when we gave her canned dog food that was made with horse meat she had an anaphylactic reaction and almost died. People who grew up around horses could have the same problem; it's not a uncommon allergy.

[Scootaloo]

11. The bigger issue...

If the supplier doesn't know what species of animal is going into the grinder... what else might they not know about the product?

[easychoice]

6. TPP

If that gets implemented,and it will because the rockefellers are behind it,I will never buy food from a store again.I suggest everyone in america do the same.

[BlueJazz]

7. I AM going to check my freezer. If I find any in there, I'll trot down to the nearest Aldi.

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Canter gue with that

[BlueJazz]

19. .

[Stuart G]

12. This is an old story from 2013,here is a link, it did not involve any U.S. Aldi stores- snopes.com

Summary: Aldi (among other food vendors) had an issue back in February 2013 with a supplier who provided them with horsemeat-tainted products, but that issue has since been resolved and did not affect consumers in the U.S.


http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/aldi.asp

[adirondacker]

15. Weird. I was on todays edition and the Guardian had a link. Still doesn't mean it can't happen here.

TPP and TPIP will create countless loopholes for companies to pass the buck (or horse).

[dickthegrouch]

24. However, the definition of "Pure" has been so bastardized in the US

That 'creative' individuals will, I'm sure, use just this kind of rationale to sell us Pure products which are in fact anything but (GMO anyone?)
We already have watered down definitions of pure juice, pure corn, sugar-free and many others thanks to cost-cutting and the failure of our leaders-to-hell to stand up to big business and their inability to tell the truth about anything.

So what that no US product was affected this time? I guarantee it will be in the future.

[GreatGazoo]

17. "Wiiiiiiilllll -- Burrrrrr !"

[BlueJazz]

20. Good one !

[IDemo]

18. Well, at least their "Sea Biscuits" are whole grain..

[d_r]

21. nothing to come unglued over

Don't be whinney and say neigh before you've even tried it, it could become a stable source of food if not saddled with regulations.

[adirondacker]

23. I might have to Pony up for the stirrup of the thoroughbred class at the OK corral.

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[MADem]

34. NEIGH~NEIGH!!! Say it isn't so!!!!

[hobbit709]

35. Humans ate horses for thousands of years before they learned to ride them.

[cwydro]

39. Pretty sure it is eaten in Europe.

Blech, not for me though.

[Major Nikon]

50. It's also quite popular in Quebec

It's very similar to beef in taste.

[yeoman6987]

40. I ate horse once in Ukraine

It was ok washed it down with vodka. I don't care if they put horse in meat as long as it is not the primary meat. Of course I love hot dogs and what they put in those.....yieks!

[JohnnyRingo]

43. Yeah... It wasn't their fault.

All they were doing was demanding meat at a price that was so low it was hard to believe it could really be beef.

They took a chance, no harm no foul.

I hope they get class actioned out of business.

[Major Nikon]

44. Parts is parts

[Spitfire of ATJ]

47. I'm waiting for meat from China to turn out to be human....

They sure have an abundant supply there.

[adirondacker]

49. Soylent green is just around the TPP corner. Maybe they'll make it into an energy drink so we can

work 100 hours per week on a shit salary with little benefits.

[CentralMass]

51. I have the second part mastered. I'll I need is the energy drink.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

52. Ideally, it would lower the IQ and increase aggression so we vote Republican too.

[adirondacker]

54. That's where the lead additive comes in.

[Nye Bevan]

53. I'll have the filly cheese steak (nt)

[Scuba]

55. Hey, why should people have the right to know what's in their food?

After all, that could interfere with corporate profits.

[B Calm]

56. I thought snopes had debunked this a long time ago.

[adirondacker]

57. we've discussed this upthread...

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/aldi.asp