MUSLIMS ACCUSE FIRM OVER SUPPLY OF MEAT
David Leask and Imran Azam


One of Scotland's biggest meat producers has been accused of supplying "fake" Halal lamb to Islamic butchers.

Stirlingshire-based Scotbeef is at the centre of an investigation by leading Muslims to discover how meat that had not been produced in line with sharia law ended up in shops across the country, just in time for last December's Eid-ul-Adha, one of Islam's most important festivals.

The company yesterday admitted some of its supplies had not been Halal but insisted it had explained this to all its customers.

Mosques have published warnings about the supplies on their websites after Glasgow's Ulema, a council of senior Muslim figures in the city, met in emergency session to discuss the issue earlier this month.

Bashir Maan, a former city councillor and senior member of Glasgow Central Mosque, said last night: "There are definitely concerns and we are looking into them."

Mr Maan said investigators had met with Scotbeef but had still to reach a conclusion on how the non-Halal meat, which is called Haram and is slightly cheaper than Halal meat, had come to be delivered for Eid, which fell on December 20.

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