Oops! Iceland tests meat pies for horse meat and finds…no meat at all!!
Posted by staff / March 2, 2013 horse meatKjartan Hreinssonmeat pies
Iceland decided to follow much of Europe and test for the presence of horse meat in some meat pies and found that not only was there no horse meat, there was no meat at all in the “meat pies”.
Icelandic meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson says his team didn’t find any horsemeat, but one brand of locally produced beef pie left it stumped: it contained no meat at all.
“That was the peculiar thing,” Hreinsson said in a telephone interview Friday. “It was labelled as beef pie, so it should be beef pie.”
Hreinsson said it appeared to be some kind of vegetable matter. He said the mystery pie was traced to a firm in western Iceland and the case had been handed to municipal authorities.
For more info, see: CBC.
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