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- 24 April 2008 - Cheap food is being dressed up as top-quality produce
Cheap food is being dressed up as top-quality produce in a vast fraud costing shoppers £7billion a year, it is claimed today.
There is mounting evidence of battery farm eggs being sold as free range, farmed fish passed off as wild and inferior meat labelled as organic.
It is also feared that premium products are being adulterated to boost profits. For example, ordinary virgin oil is dyed dark green with chlorophyll to make it look like extra virgin.
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- Jan 2004 - America bans use of captive-bolt stun gun
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced (Jan 2004) that amongst new regulations to prevent the spread of BSE - "Mad Cow Disease" - the practice of striking cows on the head to stun them before slaughter, and the use of the captive-bolt stun gun is now forbidden.
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- 24 May 2003 - Concern Grows Over Imported Chickens
BBC's investigative programme, Panormana, revealed last night that more evidence has been found of deliberate adulteration of chicken used in the UK's catering industry and the programme traced the source of the problem back to Holland.
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- 11 May 2003 - The animal welfare lobby is wrong
Animal welfare" is an odd concept to use in connection with slaughter. Welfare refers to quality of life. But killing a healthy animal in order to consume its flesh does not promote its well-being, no matter how it is dispatched. Hundreds of millions of animals are killed every year in the UK for human consumption and none derives any benefit from the process.
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- 04 April 2003 - Eastern Eye
BRITISH Muslims have been left stunned by a proposal the Government is considering which would place a ban on halal meat. In a move sure to inflame both the Muslim and Jewish communities, Eastern Eye has learnt that officials from the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) are chewing over proposals to end the practice of slaughtering animals without being stunned first.
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- Religious slaughter ban rejected
The Farm Animal Welfare Council has recommended outlawing the killing of animals without stunning them first, saying it caused severe suffering. One compromise which has been suggested involves stunning animals immediately after cutting the throat.
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- 12 March 2003 - FSA Press Release (2003/0344)
The Food Standards Agency and 20 local authorities across the UK have joined forces to expose and tackle the continuing practice of adding undeclared water and animal protein to chicken destined for restaurants and takeaways.
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- 10 March 2003 - Beef and pork proteins found in imported chicken
The UK is still a dumping ground for thousands of tonnes of cheap chicken adulterated with water and beef and pork proteins, according to food safety watchdogs. The Guardian has learned that new tests by the food standards agency have detected beef and pork DNA in Dutch chicken on sale in this country.
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- 06 Nov 2002 - Update on the Risk of BSE Infected Meat
Dr A Majid Katme, spokesman on Halal Meat and Food for the Muslim Council of Britain, attended a meeting arranged by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on Saturday 2 November 2002. The meeting was organised to provide updates on the BSE and Sheep Stakeholders' Report, released in May 2002.
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