Posted on 02/01/2013 9:22:01 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
The Ministry of Justice is suspending a supplier of meat to prisons after it discovered that halal pies and pasties sourced from a properly halal certificated supplier may contain traces of pork.
The products concerned have been withdrawn immediately, a spokesman said.
He added: "All prisons have been informed about this very regrettable incident and we reported this issue to the Food Standards Agency immediately.
"We are taking immediate steps to suspend the contract with the relevant subcontractor."
Justice minister Jeremy Wright said: "This is an absolutely unacceptable situation and one which we regret greatly. Clearly this must be distressing for those affected and they can be reassured we are doing everything we can to resolve the situation. The prison service is investigating this as a matter of urgency.
"The FSA has been informed that a number of meat pies and pasties supplied to UK prisons which were labelled and served as halal contained traces of pork DNA. The local authority is investigating how this contamination came about and whether these products have been distributed further across the UK."
This related to the local authority where the supplier is based, she said. She declined to say which one it was.
On a more general theme relating to recent stories about mis-description of food, she said: "People have a right to expect that the food they are eating is correctly described. We have called an urgent meeting of major retailers and suppliers on Monday to ensure that everyone is fully aware of their responsibilities.
"It is the responsibility of food businesses to ensure the food they sell contains what it says on the label. We are considering, with relevant local authorities, whether legal action is appropriate following the investigation."
The Prison Reform Trust said it welcomed the immediate apology and investigation.
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You and I were the only ones who caught that!
When I wore a much younger man’s clothes, I once saw a talented young woman, with quite large ‘bazookas’, swing two tassle pasties ‘round & ‘round.
The kicker was, she had them going in opposite directions. Don’t ask me how. USA USA USA!
It's not a sin.
And yes, if you commit a crime and go to prison, take it or leave it.
Have a problem with that? Don't commit the crime.
Hat tip to Baretta.
LOL!
That’s the name of that tune!
Put them on a pure pork diet and hopefully they will kill themselves!
Not as bad as Clinton taking the Dahli Lama to Taco Bell for a taco!
I thought it was supposed to be ‘pastries’.
Whoops!
I thought it was supposed to be ‘pastries’.
Whoops!
LOL
Counter rotating Pasties...No, let’s not go there... :)
They even bother to check the DNA content of prison food???
Good lord. Britain is gone.
Quite so..Allahu fubar!
Maybe 4 or 5 washes & rinses, instead of 2 or 3, between batches?
Testing techniques are getting too sensitive for this kind of 'purity testing', but when the public is paying cost doesn't matter.
“Traces of DNA” is not a pork chop or bacon-cheeseburger.
OTOH, I feel for you; that’s got to be an unpleasant loss.
With my wife, it was a sudden onset of allergy to clams, but she’s happy with it, as her mushroom allergy disappeared concurrent to it, and she always loved ‘shrooms; chowder she can live without.
With me, it was a sudden allergy to shrimp. That was about 20 years ago. I can now eat maybe 8 pepper shrimp without taking a Benadryl, having worked my way up from one shrimp AFTER taking a Benadryl 20-30 minutes prior to ingestion. I LIKE my shrimp.
Not that I would advise you to try anything similar with pork, but one never knows....
‘Nitrate/nitrite allergies are common.’
I was just about to suggest something like that.
Years ago a male relative was told he was allergic to pine.
Therefore, an artificial Christmas tree was purchased and used for the holidays.
Years later it was found the allergy was to the stuffed sprayed on Christmas trees at some point.
Don’t know anything further . . .
Britain is lost. The groveling submissive apology is disgusting.
The supplier thought that their aversion to pigs related to their mothers who encouraged them to commit murder in the name of their god - they had no idea it extended to “porks”.
Well, shoot !
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