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10/03/2023 Food fraud: imported beef sold as British

Today, the imported beef sold as British: 10 years after horsegate we ask how this sort of fraud can happen.

Imported meat labelled as British has been sold by a retailer which advertises that it sells only British meat. The National Food Crime Unit is investigating after discovering that one of the retailers' suppliers has been selling it what's described as 'large volumes' of pre-packed South American and European beef, labelled as British. Ten years after the horse meat scandal, we ask how this sort of fraud can happen.

All this week we've been talking about dairy farming. One of their big challenges has been what to do with male dairy calves. Obviously only females produce milk and in the past thousands of male or β€˜bobby’ calves were killed soon after birth. But the Red Tractor assurance scheme, which covers 95% of UK milk production, has banned routine euthanasia of calves from this year. We meet a farmer rearing male calves for veal.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

13 minutes

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  • Fri 10 Mar 2023 05:45

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