6 300 tons of horsemeat produced in 2012
2013-02-12 21:37
Bucharest - Romanian food safety officials say the
country produced 6 300 tons of horse, mule and donkey meat last year, and that
it was correctly labelled when it was exported to other European countries.
Amid a growing scandal over horsemeat mislabelled as beef
in frozen processed food, the National Authority for Veterinary and Food Safety
said on Tuesday that some 97% of the meat slaughtered and processed at 35
authorised plants was sold to Bulgaria, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland,
Germany, Belgium and Greece.
A complex web of meat wholesalers has made it increasingly
difficult to trace the origins of food.
France says Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot
traders were part of a supply chain that resulted in horsemeat being labelled
as beef.
- SAPA
