2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
In southern France, 21 people were arrested after it became clear that the meat of hundreds of horses used for drug research was being sold in stores.
French police say most of these horses were owned by pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and were sold to slaughterhouses in the country after their veterinary documents were forged.
More than 100 police officers took part in the operation, and the operations took place in several slaughterhouses on French territory and in the Spanish city of Girona, where three veterinarians and several meat traders were arrested.
One of the detainees, who was captured in the southwestern French city of Narbonne, is suspected of being the leader of a network for illegal trade.
Sanofi said it was cooperating with the investigation and had sold a total of 200 horses to veterinary colleges, individuals and equestrian centers in the past three years.
A police source said Sanofi's horses were used either to provide blood for vaccines or to study drugs being developed.
According to the source, horse meat is not dangerous for consumers, but there is no place on their table. The horsemeat scandal erupted earlier this year when it was found to be contained in products that said they contained beef.
An inspection by the European Commission showed that 5% of products in the EU contain horse meat.
On 15 February, the EU drew up a plan to provide for 2,250 DNA tests on semi-finished products, as well as samples for the presence of the phenylbutazone, which is dangerous to human health. According to the results, 0.6% of the tested horse meat contains traces of the drug.
The samples on the Bulgarian markets found that 8 out of 100 of the offered local products in our country contain horse meat between 10-20%, in contrast to the samples on the European markets, whose content of horse meat varied from 80 to 100%.
In Bulgaria, sazdarma, sausages and minced meat were studied, and in the open batches of horse meat, it was a substitute for beef.
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