We’re just about getting over the shock of having horse meat mixed in with our beef,
and pork mixed with beef when it shouldn't be, when the news emerges that
sausages aren't all they seem. Instead of the usual pork and cereal we have
been eating bones and stuff.
Why
am I not surprised to learn that suppliers are selling mechanically recovered
residue, only changing the name so that it can legally be termed meat in the
UK. Indeed, one manufacturer believes the product is widely used.
Content
known as desinewed meat (DSM) was introduced
in the UK in the nineties but a better description is a higher form of recovered meat retrieved from animal bones, similar in
looks to mince and closer to meat than slurry.
I read
this piece of news:
“the BBC has learned that across
Europe many suppliers continue to produce desinewed meat using different names
including "Baader meat" and "3mm mince". Baader meat is
made using a machine from the Baader company in Germany and according to a
spokesman, the device removes the membrane and the sinew and in the end
"it is meat"! Suppliers that use the Baader system in Germany, the
Netherlands, France and Spain all stated they believed their desinewed products
are outside the EU ban and can count towards the meat content of sausages and
other foods. In e-mails seen by the BBC, some of these companies say they are
very keen to supply it to the UK.”
You have been warned,
folks. If anything you buy is labelled Baader meat you know where it came from. Horse meat sounds good compared to this, providing the suppliers let us
know. There was a hue and cry over horse meat but hardly anything has been said
about this revolting sounding content in our food. Thank goodness for genuine butchers, is what I say, at least the're doing well out of the horse meat scandal.
