BBC - Bernard Matthews

Pat's Note: Just published. Spot the 50 tons of chicken from Brazil!

So much for a fine outstanding example of British farming fully supported by
Britain's corrupt state veterinarians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6431691.stm

Food passed through bird flu site

Poultry entering the food-chain was from the UK, Hungary and Brazil

Hundreds of tons of poultry passed through the Bernard Matthews plant and
entered the food chain during the bird flu outbreak, the government has
said.
Public health minister Caroline Flint said 850 tons of turkey, some from
Hungary, passed through the infected plant in Holton in Suffolk.

This was between confirmation of the outbreak of avian influenza and the
resumption of production at the plant.

"This meat was from birds slaughtered prior to 2 February," she said.

The minister stressed that no-one involved in meat processing had come into
contact with live birds at another part of the site.

The Food Standards Agency said none of the meat went near the sheds where
infected birds were found and it was processed on other areas of the site.

The minister said 757 tons of the turkey was from the UK and 93 tons was
from Hungary - the country suspected as being the source of the outbreak.

A further 50 tons of chicken from Brazil also passed through the plant.

Nearly 160,000 turkeys were culled at the firm's Holton plant after the
potentially fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu was discovered on 3 February.



Regards
Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com


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