- "I would urge consumers who have any concerns -
or just interest - to ask retailers where the meat they buy comes from"
- Food Standards Agency Deputy Chair Suzi Leather
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- Consumers are being urged to check if corned beef
and other meat products come from France after research found about
100 French cattle with BSE were killed for human consumption this year.
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- Britain has imported nearly two and half thousand tonnes
of corned beef from France in the last 12 months.
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- And because it is produced in France it is not covered
by the British BSE controls banning the sale of meat from cattle over 30
months old - those most likely to be infectious.
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- Imported salami and pate produced from French beef also
escape these controls.
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- The Food Standards Agency said the risk was still too
small to demand an outright ban - but consumers should have the right to
choose.
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- Food Standards Agency deputy chair Suzi Leather said:
"We are pressing the UK Government very hard and also pressing Brussels
very hard for country of origin labelling.
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- "I would urge consumers who have any concerns -
or just interest - to ask retailers where the meat they buy comes from."
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- It is up to the makers to label the cans, and under present
European law they do not have to specify the country of origin.
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- Research published in the science journal Nature shows
that in France an estimated 100 cattle carrying BSE have been wrongly slaughtered
for human consumption this year.
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- And in Britain local authorities are tightening controls
on imported beef after spot checks ordered by the Food Standards Agency
showed a fifth of consignments were not properly documented.
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- The loophole allowing corned beef from older animals
to be sold in the UK will be partially closed next month when a ban on
meat from cattle over 30 months old is imposed throughout Europe.
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- But there are no plans to withdraw millions of cans already
on the market.
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