9 April 2013 Last updated at 21:39

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22087123

Veterinary drug found in Asda budget corned beef

Asda is recalling all corned beef from its budget range after traces of the veterinary drug phenylbutazone were found in some batches.

The Food Standards Agency said “very low levels” had been detected in the Asda Smart Price Corned Beef product.

The painkilling medicine often used on horses is commonly known as “bute”.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it was the first time bute had been found in a meat product in the UK since the horsemeat scandal started.

Product withdrawn

Animals treated with bute are not allowed to enter the food chain because the drug could pose a risk to human health.

However, the risk is very low even if people have eaten contaminated horsemeat.

The Asda product was tested as part of an industry-wide programme and found to be positive for horse DNA above 1%.

It was then further tested and found to contain four parts per billion of bute.

Asda had already withdrawn the product on 8 March.

Customers who have bought the 340g tins with any date code have been urged not to eat the corned beef and to return it to the supermarket for a refund.

Horse carcasses

Chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies said: “Horsemeat containing phenylbutazone presents a very low risk to human health.

“Phenylbutazone, known as bute, is a commonly used medicine in horses. It is also prescribed to some patients who are suffering from a severe form of arthritis.

“In patients who have been taking phenylbutazone as a medicine there can be serious side effects, but these are rare. It is extremely unlikely that anyone who has eaten horse meat containing bute will experience one of these side effects.”

In the UK, horse carcasses must have a negative bute test before they are allowed to enter the food chain.

Asda has also recalled tinned Chosen By You Corned Beef (340g) as a precaution – even though the product has not tested positive for phenylbutazone – because it was made in the same factory.

‘Test commitment’

Asda said in a statement on its website: “We have taken an extremely cautious approach since the very beginning and have carried out more than 700 tests, moving swiftly to remove any products from our shelves whenever we’ve had the smallest concerns.

“Our commitment to you is to continue to test our products regularly and update you with the very latest news as soon as we can.”

Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said the discovery was “deeply worrying”. She said the fact that the product has only just been recalled “exposes weaknesses in the government’s handling of the horsemeat scandal where products were withdrawn, but in some cases not tested”.

Earlier, the FSA said two beefburger products withdrawn from sale over concerns they may contain horsemeat had tested positive.

The King Fry Meat Products burger was from Pig Out in Walsall and the Burger Manufacturing Company product was from Nefyn Pizza and Kebab House in Gwynedd.

Five samples were checked for the presence of horse DNA above a 1% threshold.

Two samples did not contain horse DNA and one result is still to be returned.

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TheUnhivedMind on April 9, 2013 at 11:34 pm said:

Have you not seen through what is happening to the meat industry? The future society will be socially engineered into accepting being ill vegans yet believing they are healthier than ever. No different to the double-think of believe you are free now but in truth you are more enslaved than ever. For anyone who knows about the Malthusian population reduction plans of the Club of Rome, it becomes easy to see what the real agenda is. Why would those who wish you dead and ill for control purposes be looking after your health? They are not and in fact they are harming you. Same as the cigarette ban having a hidden agenda. Same as the removal of lead from petrol is not to stop you being dumbed down, since this is one of their agendas (vaccines and outcome based education), it was removed to aid the surveillance big brother network since signals do not penetrate lead. This is why lead in house paint was banned too, they must see through your homes with ease.

Have you noticed how red meat takes the flack for everything going these days? This is of course propaganda to turn you firstly away from red meat then all meat. Why? Red meat in balanced doses can be a powerful qi builder if you look into Chinese medicine. Anyone arguing there is no such thing as qi should look at the scientific journal Nature, from August 1986 where the U.S. Air Force admitted they measured this force. Of course no big deals were made about this fact because it would have turned the scientific world upside down. The Chinese dragon people are not a stupid race and they fully understand qi and have done for six-thousand years. Ask anyone who has been a vegan and then gone back to eating meats what they notice and feel. Rest assured they start to see the error of their old ways as a vegan and its pitfalls. I was one of them people after ten years or more as a proper vegan I am now a meat eater following the Chinese diet system. One of the best meats you can eat for health reasons is duck.

Study how the Livery pirate, Elizabeth Kucinich is trying to move society towards becoming vegans and anti-meat. Study how they are putting vegans in the boardrooms of meat companies to aid anti-meat policies. Study how Elizabeth Kucinich is a pirate of The Worshipful Company of Coopers. Look into her vile, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Elizabeth is Dennis kucinich’s handler, come on ask yourself why a young girl like her wants Dennis.

-= The Unhived Mind