Tuesday, February 19, 2013

No horse meat sold in Qatar, Ministry of Environment says


Qatar is “absolutely free of horse meat,” a Ministry of Environment official in the livestock management department has told Al Watan.

Farhoud al Hajri, head of the animal division, was responding to concerns among residents about the quality of canned meat sold here following a recent scandal in Europe in which horse meat was sold as beef in several packaged foods. 

Just today, Nestle, the world’s largest food company, pulled beef pasta meals from grocery stores in Italy and Spain after finding trace amounts of horse meat in them.

Read more: http://dohanews.co/post/43473505657/no-horse-meat-sold-in-qatar-ministry-of-environment#ixzz2LKcPN08o

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