No risk from eating horsemeat, assures Environmental Health
Tuesday 12th February 2013, 10:00AM GMT.
ISLANDERS have nothing to fear if they have inadvertently eaten horsemeat, the director of Environmental Health said yesterday.
After it emerged late last week that many retailers had inadvertently been selling products containing horsemeat, more rigorous testing has been ordered in the UK to discover if any products contained substances harmful to human health.
Head of Environmental Health Val Cameron, pictured, said currently the risk was one of labelling and trust, not one of risk to human health.
‘The information from the Food Standards Agency is there is no health risk. In the UK companies are to test again and these checks will include ones for veterinary medicines.
‘Right now, the issue is a labelling and composition one.’
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How can Vai Cameron make such sweeping statements , does she know where this horse meat came from.?
What next human remains used in such foods …
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How does she know.
If they producers do not even know what type of animal is going in to these products, how do they know that the animal wasn’t diaereses.
I’m not a fan of horse meat (whenever I’ve eaten it before it’s had a weird texture) i am however concerned about the source of the meat I eat and its clear these retailers have no idea.
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How ridiculous can you get!
Even the people selling the stuff don’t know where the contamination came from; how can our little Director of Public Health know so much more with such certainty?
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Vai Cameron
Is it safe with sea horse in fish fingers?
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how come after eating lasagne i spent two days in bed feeling a little horse.
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There’s a law against feeling horses!!
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niegh,lad
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How does this lady know that the horsemeat is safe for human consumption?
in the UK the authorities have not been this rash in the assurances and have said that they are testing for the anti-inflammatory drug known as bute which is harmful to humans.
I think this lady should retract this comment until the outcome of testing for bute.
In addition the European authorities are now attributing all of this to criminal activity. Does the Director of Public Health think that criminals care at all about the public’s health.
A very unwise comment by the Director of Public Health. Her equivalent in the UK refused to eat a Findus meal placed in front of him which says it all.
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“Right now the issue is a labelling and composition one”
…. and when it becomes also a health risk one, Mrs Cameron?
Unless she is in possession of facts that the consuming public are not aware of, Mrs C has no right to be making such sweeping statements.
If she IS in possession of such information she should publish it immediately. I for one, am not convinced by the “Trust me, I’m the Director of Public Health” approach and will not be consuming anything frozen or tinned that claims to be beef.
Better safe than sorry, Mrs C.
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Hmmm ~~~ hopes they find no nasty drugs in that horse meat. But suspect if a criminal ring it will be
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This is the same woman who thinks its ok to burn contaminated wood down at whispers vinery which belches out nasties on a random basis but its ok folks because they’ve done loads of tests and just to be sure she’s always told the vinery owners when the emission tests would be done so there’s no chance they would make sure they only burn clean wood on that day eh.
Move along, nothing to see here. Ooh look over there, a findus ready meal!
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I wonder if she would eat it?
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Now anyone who had a bite of the 1500hrs winner at Aintree should be a winner for the next Olympics!
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I wonder if, in view of the near panic investigations taking place across Europe, Ms Cameron should send a reassuring message to the EU health authorities telling them they need have no fear of human health risk from the contaminated products. It might help to calm down the situation and demonstrate Guernsey’s special expertise in this area at the same time.
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The only dead horses are because they are no longer viable having been medicated with Drugs to the hilt. Or already dead? Unless Stolen for meat value. Rearing horses for consumption is comparable to fattening pigeons or Guinea Pigs. Guernsey has too many overpaid civil servants and not enough taxpayers. Can we carry on paying for tripe?
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