Plymouth City Council and Derriford Hospital get assurances of no horse meat in city food supply
THE city council and Derriford Hospital have reassured the public that there is no horse meat in the meals they provide.
The horse meat contamination scandal started when Irish food producers found it in burgers stocked by supermarkets such as Tesco and Aldi and has since been linked to suppliers across Europe.
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Plymouth City Council and Derriford Hospital get assurances of no horse meat in city food supply
A Plymouth City Council spokesperson said: "We provide catering for children and young people in the majority of our city's schools, community meals and residential home catering for vulnerable adults across the city and pride ourselves by providing high-quality meals.
"Our Education Catering Service is proud to hold the Soil Association's Gold Catering Mark Award for our school meals in recognition of our use of fresh, local and seasonal food and ingredients and the fact that we cook our meals from scratch each and every day.
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"Our meat supplier for our school meals and residential home catering provides us with locally sourced produce from two companies within the South West where the meat is farmed on their premises.
"These companies have issued written assurances to our supplier that they provide 100 per cent beef.
"We currently use two additional suppliers for our community meals (meals-on-wheels), both of which have assured us the meat used is 100 per cent beef.
"Tests are being conducted as per the Government guidelines and those that have been tested so far have returned this result.
"All pre-packaged meals used are made in the UK by hand."
A spokesperson for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust also tried to calm the public's nerves in the wake of information that horse meat was found in beef products in the UK. They said: "Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust wants to reassure the public that we have sought assurance from our suppliers concerning their beef products.
"Apetito has confirmed that all DNA test results carried out by an independent accredited laboratory have been 100 percent clear and all of their beef suppliers have been audited.
"Brakes Group has confirmed that none of their products are affected.
"Scorse Foods has also confirmed that they do not or have not sourced any product from the companies named in relation to these findings and any beef contained within their manufactured products are sourced within the South West from suppliers who solely slaughter bovine animals on site."
Apetito, a supplier used by hospitals in Plymouth, have released a statement laying out the checks they have made on their own products and is available on their website.
They say: "Apetito has never traded, purchased or produced equine products."
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by b_mused
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 10:09PM
“At least Waitrose burgers are more likely to have won The Grand National.”
by bilbobaggins
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 9:49PM
“if serco could do it on the cheap trust me those scumbags would”
by jabbathebutt
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 9:29PM
“I hear the french have just found out that all these quick meals contain horse meat and fights and riots are continuing during the panic buying .”
by roddy1664
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 8:46PM
“Well, I'm sticking to pork as no one will mess with that, the nearest thing to it is human meat and who would do that? Would they????
HaHa! missing persons qyeries resolved. I now understand why some people don't eat pork.”
by mcspredder
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 8:40PM
“You'd think horse meat would be dearer than beef as they run faster and are harder to catch”
by CharlieDodd
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 5:59PM
“WAITER- "Are you ready to order sir?"
RESTAURANT CUSTOMER- "Yes I'd like a nice juicy steak, is it good quality?"
WAITER- "Yes sir, it won the 3:30 at Haydock Park last week"”
by nineplatoon
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 1:02PM
“how cares if there's horse meat”
by OutsideView
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 11:53AM
“The issue is not that the products contain horse meat but misrepresentation of the contents stated on the labels.
As for meals on wheels, speaking from experience, some of their meals are not fit for human consumption even if they are supposed to contain beef!
Perhaps if horse was used they might have been more appetising.
Having eaten Hippo, Rhino, elephant, buffalo, zebra and crocodile I cannot see what all the fuss is about other than to scare the population.
Remember who will pick up the tab for all of the products removed from the supermarket shelves and destroyed, YOU THE PUBLIC. A penny increase here and there on everything that the supermarket sells will soon recoup their losses.”
by m_dalston
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 11:30AM
“@logicaltim nice but dim. You totally miss the point. This is about the fact that your food is labelled wrong (no doubt because of financial gains for someone along the line), not to mention the fact that this meat is not only labelled wrong, it is also not checked for things like horse tranquillisers & equine medicine. I personally don't mind eating horsemeat. I have had it several times in Italy and the steak is rather nice but I'll pass on the dodgy Romanian stuff that is added illegaly thanks.”
by technomanic
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 11:30AM
“Perhaps a little bit of horse on the menu might make hospital food a little more appetising. I wonder how many relatives bring in horse burgers for patients during visits anyway.”