Waitrose withdraws ‘one-third pork’ meatballs from shelves
Thursday 14th February 2013, 8:30AM GMT.
Deputy chief environmental health officer Tobin Cook with a copy of yesterday’s Daily Mail with the headline ‘Now it’s British Horse Meat in Burgers’. He said the department was keeping in close contact with local meat importers, and making sure that they have product recall systems in place should they be needed. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1304272)
MEATBALLS have been removed from Waitrose shelves locally after it was found that ingredients were not as declared on the label.
Frozen beef meatballs from its Essential range were withdrawn on Tuesday after it was found that some contained up to one-third pork.
An email sent by Waitrose to customers stated: ‘Although the meatballs are safe to eat, pork is not listed as an ingredient and should not be part of the recipe.’
Waitrose advised that the affected product had best-before dates of June and August 2013.
Guernsey deputy chief environmental health officer Tobin Cook said that the situation was constantly developing but the department was remaining vigilant.
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I hope that all products withdrawn the suppliers have to take the items off ilsand to be disposed off and not dumped into our waste stream.
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I would hope that all the products withdrawn from the shelves are given out to anyone who would like them – free of charge. To waste this amount of food is obscene.
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Certainly no reason to throw away perfectly edible food. Give it to States departments to feed their hungry mouths (prisoners, firemen, the hospital).
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There are lots of people whose religion bans them from eating pork, supermarkets need to test and check what ingredients are listed! Not just rely on suppliers
Cottage pie tonight, home made!
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I quite agree Soph. It’s just a shame that we sometimes have to put our “trust” in people we don’t know. We don’t know how long this has been going on!
I trust that you know the provenance of your beef for your CP?
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It’s probably from Romania, little more than two months ago it was working on a farm.
Oh Dear.
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