Rotting Meat May Have Been Sold by Unwitting Supermarkets for Years
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It has now come to light that a major meat supplier used by most supermarkets and other outlets in the UK might have been selling rotten meat to them for many years, and then unwittingly bought by us
They are said to have been mixing the rotten meat such as pork with fresh meat
This meat was also supplied to care homes and hospitals
To make matters worse , after freezing, it is said they even let the it defrost on the factory floor
Not only this, they also passed off foreign pork as British, so it could have come from anywhere in the world where hygiene could be none existent
We are already eating food pumped full of chemicals , that is bad enough, but to have been fooled into buying rotten meat, pork being the most dangerous, especially if allowed to defrost and resold chilled, is disgusting and totally unacceptable
No wonder there are so many illnesses and cancers about
I hope the owners get long prison sentences and not just a slap on the wrist
MelissaLee1 You can say that again M, and greedy for profit without a thought for peoples health
Meat sold in U.K. grocery stores always tasted weird to me because of the chemicals added to it. That goes for the ham, too.
Since I'm not currently, I've been buying meat that was on sale and stored in the freezer along with other items (bread, vegetables, etc). If you get offered a decent discount code, make good use of it with food that can be stored for a year or more.
Ever since the inflation, money has felt like it has lost its value (whether GBP, USD, EUR). However, it's obviously still essential as it's the currency to pay the bills, at the store, at the gas station, etc.
This is terrible thankfully I get my meat from my local butcher or farmers market. I will definitely avoid the supermarkets now
I'm the same as jamiemat . I'd say between 80-90% of our meat and fish comes from either the local farm shop,meat and fish market or butcher on the high street.
The cost is a little bit more than supermarket but the quality is pure perfection.
I'm very glad I don't eat meat. I find it disturbing that someone didn't speak out sooner and it carried on for years.
another good reason to nuy for my local butcher. although I do buy chicken from supermarket
telmel - I read something similar to this article about five years ago and I have stopped buying fresh beef and chicken since last year. This story is absolutely shocking and almost unbelievable for a country like England to indulge into such unacceptable practice regarding the consumers health. The owner will probably get a suspended prison sentence because the prisons are full of people convicted of serious crimes to be locked up.
I can’t believe that the name of the company hasn’t been revealed or to the businesses they supplied.
Pjran The article does mention supplying the major supermarkets , hospitals schools and care homes etc, and i suppose there aren't too many large major meat suppliers operating here, so it must be easy to find out
Here is a section from another newspaper article
‘Falsely labelled’, ‘rotten’ meat sold in supermarkets, schools
According to the report, the processor, who has not been named, mixed rotten pork with fresh product. This was sent to schools, hospitals, care homes and prisons indirectly. The meat also made its way to ready-to-eat meals, quiches, sandwiches and other products sold at Britain’s top supermarkets like Tesco, Marks & Spencers, Asda, Co-op, and Morrisons. (Tesco is the market leader and Asda is the country’s third-largest grocery store.)
None of the supplier’s customers was aware of its alleged malpractices.
Former staff, who worked with the manufacturer, told Farmers Weekly, that it sold “tens of thousands of tonnes a week” of foreign pork as British. The firm would regularly “wash” hams that were visibly off to pass them off as fine. Other products such as ox tongues were not heat treated properly, and the meat was sometimes thawed out on the factory floor, posing a serious food safety risk, the report says.
That Stinks How rotten meat was sold in UK supermarkets supplied to schools hospitals for years
According to the report, the meat was used in ready meals, quiches and sandwiches. Reuters
According to former employees, tests that showed that the meat picked up bacteria like E-Coli and Listeria were buried and paperwork was falsified. European Union bacon medallions were bought for £1 per kilo and sold as British ones for £12 per kilo.
An employee, who remained anonymous, told Farmers Weekly, “It used to get me to a point where I’d be thinking, ‘We’re going to kill someone’”.
“There were days I’d sit outside in my car crying because I didn’t want to go in. It was that bad,” another added.
The supplier reportedly misled food inspectors by hiding suspected meat in lorries and other parts of the factory. One way they dodged auditors was by having an employee push the suspect meat around the circle-shaped factory as the auditor went around too, so they never came across it, The Mirror reports.
The investigation
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a criminal investigation to probe the alleged rogue meat supplier.
Omg how did they get away with this for so long. I hope they never get chance to reopen or sell meat ever again
the articles linked only mention pork but I guess they could have mixed pork into non pork products too 
There are other articles about this A with more information, but they ask you to join before letting you read on or as with yahoo articles can disappear after a few hours
Buy i managed to copy this from business news
It is claimed that rotten meat may have been unknowingly sold by supermarkets for years, with an alleged rogue supplier now at the centre of a criminal investigation.
Major supermarket chains were conducting urgent checks on Wednesday night to ensure that products containing the company’s processed meat are no longer on shelves.
Ready meals, sandwiches, quiches and other products sold at Tesco, Asda, Co-op, Morrisons and Marks & Spencer include meat produced by the Midlands-based firm, which cannot be named for legal reasons. Its factory also supplied food manufacturer Oscar Mayer, whose customers include Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Ikea, Subway and airline food firm Dnata.
Retailers were “double checking” Wednesday that none of the factory’s products remained on shelves or in supply chains, according to an industry source, although the factory is currently closed and retailers believe there are no current food safety issues. are not.
I find it shocking that the employee said they were sat in their car crying. They could have sent a letter anonymously to the food standards agency or the headquarters of any supermarkets informing them of the issues. I suppose they want us to feel sorry for them by saying they were crying but ultimately they are aiding the bad practice and should be liable too, they are grownups after all and have responsibility too.
As an IBS sufferer I combat issues with food everyday and hearing that I could have bought food with potential to make me even more ill (or could have made me ill as none of us know) makes me so angry as I know all of these people will face no real consequences for their greedy profiteering actions hence why they did it in the first place, there’s no fear, we’re too soft
Gromit22 I agree with you there G, not just about this but about a lot of things that are happening in the country lately
And you are right, people who worked there knew about this and yet said nothing, even anonymously
As you said, they just didn't care , did they think family and friends would be immune from the effects of rotten meat, the employee would have had to warned a lot of people she or he knew to stop them buying it , an impossible task
And the owners should be jailed for life and charged with attempted murder in my opinion , but it will just be a heavy fine and a slap on the wrist as usual
We are just about to lose our local butcher has been a family run business for over 60 years it’s heartbreaking 
but younger folk just are not using them
I used to eat meat but I rarely eat it anymore not because I’m a vegetarian or anything I just don’t eat it, But I buy Chicken for my Dog and have Bought Meat for sandwiches for my Grandchildren if they are staying at mine and want sandwiches for work or something, I find Chicken absolutely Stinks when it Thaws out to be honest I have been saying to my Niece for a long while now that Packs of Meat not Just frozen Chicken those packs of meat really smell Off no matter how much date is on the package I don’t ever Remember meat smelling so disgusting, While I was Married I Always Bought Meat Packs from the Butchers or sometimes My Mum would get Meat Direct from the Farmers in Wales and the meat was absolutely delicious and certainly never smelled when Defrosted. I would Make a Cooked Dinner every single Night. But now I am on my own I don’t bother with cooking Joints of meat etc, I have noticed the Chicken water is Cloudy when it Defrosts and I Rinse it to cook for the Dog and that comes direct from a meat man, I have heard in the past that chicken gets bleached 
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