Who’s going to broil your wild horses?
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Looks like someone got a little creative with the custom blend, messed up in the slaughterhouse, or didn’t wipe down the grinder too carefully: Burger King announced that contrary to an earlier assertion, there are in fact “very small trace levels” of horse DNA in its products, but that it has taken action in order to cut out the horse-contaminated meat from its supply chain. It is thought that the multinational Silvercrest Foods bought meat from a “non-approved supplier” in Poland, and the fast-food chain hadn’t been able to detect equine DNA earlier this month when it performed tests on its patties, in part because “testing for equine DNA is not a standard practice used in beef production.” [Guardian UK, Earlier, Earlier]
