- PARIS (Reuters) - First it
was mad cows, then dodgy duck and now sullied slaughterhouses. Another
food scandal hit France Friday, and with it the announcement that one of
the country's top restaurants was shunning meat for good.
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- Arpege, one of the high temples of the Paris food scene,
will soon turn vegetarian as a result of Chef Alain Passard's personal
tastes, French daily Liberation reported.
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- ``We must get back to the essences of the earth. I hope
to contribute to a deep change in culinary creation,'' the 44-year-old
chef said, capping a year in which French pride in its cuisine has been
dashed by one food scare after another.
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- However, Passard's announcement was upstaged by a report
about unsanitary pig meat production practices in France.
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- Daily Le Figaro published sections of a report describing
severe hygiene problems, lack of veterinary controls and significant lapses
in animal welfare witnessed during an EU fact-finding mission to French
slaughterhouses, farms and laboratories earlier this summer.
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- At one slaughterhouse, inspectors from the EU's Food
and Veterinary Office said blood from pigs was collected for human consumption
in an unclean way.
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- ``The animals were stabbed on a conveyor belt and blood
was collected in an open system with high risk of contamination from the
unclean skin,'' the experts wrote in the report. ''Not all workers had
easy access to hand wash facilities and sterilizers. Hand held hoses were
frequently used for rinsing hands and tools, leading to a high risk of
contaminating carcasses,'' the report said.
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