Neil Parish questions Minister about horsemeat in supermarket meat products

Neil Parish questions the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food about the finding of horsemeat in supermarket meat products.Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) (Con): In this country, there are robust rules to separate the processing of beef and horse meat. Is that not the case in Ireland?Mr Heath: That will be the subject of the investigations being carried out. The low-level contamination suggests that it may not have been through deliberate falsification of labelling. It may well be that it is simply cross-contamination by error, but I am sure that the Irish authorities will look carefully at this. We are co-operating with them as far as we can, and we are very eager to know the answer.| Hansard