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After two weeks of maintaining their burgers were horsemeat-free, Burger King has admitted selling beef burgers containing horsemeat which originated from Larry Goodman’s Silvercrest plant in Monaghan.

A Burger King spokesperson said:

“Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA. Within the last 36 hours, we have established that Silvercrest used a small percentage of beef imported from a non-approved supplier in Poland. They promised to deliver 100per cent British & Irish beef patties and have not done so. This is a clear violation of our specifications, and we have terminated our relationship with them.Through our investigation, we have confirmed that this non-approved Polish supplier is the same company identified by the Irish Department of Agriculture as the source of Silvercrest’s contamination issue.”

Previously Shergar-Free

Burger King admits selling beef burgers and whoppers containing horsemeat, Daily Mail

Test results are expected today from new samples taken at the Silvercrest Foods plant at the centre of the controversy over horse meat in beef burgers.

The samples, taken by Department of Agriculture staff at the Ballybay, Co Monaghan, plant on Tuesday, will show if its burgers still contain horse DNA.

They were ordered by Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney after it emerged that a Tesco Everyday Value beef burger made at the plant contained 29.1 per cent horse DNA, relative to meat content.

The finding emerged after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland analysed 27 frozen beef burger products. It found 10, or 37 per cent, tested positive for horse DNA. With the exception of the Tesco burger, the other samples showed horse DNA at very low levels, of 0.1 to 0.3 per cent.

Neigh, neigh and thrice neigh.

New tests to reveal if horse meat still present in burgers (Alison Healy, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

And we thought he was just waiting for his owner.

Tesco shopping Centre Coolock (Clarehall), Dublin, back in the Summer.

Innocent times

If only wNOMNOMNOM.

FSAI Survey Finds Horse DNA In Some Beef Burger Products (FSAI)

Guidance on Beef Labelling (Food Standards Authority)

Pic by Niall Rooney

Hedonism(y) Trojaner: a giant resin rocking horse with a skin of recycled computer keys by Babis Cloud.

What is the artist saying here? Is the internet a gift that conceals the bitter seed of our destruction? Or is the annihilation of modern civilisation inherent in the…eh….contextualisation of….eh….

Wheeee! Go horsey!

colossal/ignant