Burger King admits it has been selling beef burgers containing horsemeat

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year Burger King admit that was selling beef burgers with horsemeat.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span> <br /> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burger King has admitted that it has been selling burgers and Whoppers containing horsemeat despite two weeks of denials.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fast food chain, which has more than 500 UK outlets, had earlier given a series of ‘absolute assurances’ that its products were not involved.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, new tests have revealed these guarantees were incorrect in a revelation that threatens to destroy the trust of customers.</span></div><div class="artSplitter" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Burger King has faced allegations of orchestrating a cover-up of its links to the horsemeat scandal in order to give it time to find an alternative supplier. It has admitted selling burgers containing horsemeat" class="blkBorder" height="412" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/31/article-2271440-17239FD3000005DC-517_634x412.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 1px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 1px 5px; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burger King has faced allegations of orchestrating a cover-up of its links to the horsemeat scandal in order to give it time to find an alternative supplier. It has admitted selling burgers containing horsemeat</span></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --><br /> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT><br /> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript><br /> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <br /> </div><div class="clear" style="line-height: 24px;"></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also raises serious questions about whether the food company, which sells around one million burgers a week in the UK, has any good idea about what goes into its products.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contaminated burgers were made by the Irish-based processing company, Silvercrest, which is part the ABP Foods Group.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><br /> </div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same company also made tainted burgers for Tesco, Asda and the Co-op, among others.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burger King has faced allegations of orchestrating a cover-up of its links to the horsemeat scandal in order to give it time to find an alternative supplier.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is currently shipping in tens of thousands of burgers from suppliers in Germany and Italy in order to meet demand at its UK outlets.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is known that the management at Silvercrest has been using a series of non-approved ingredients in their burgers for a range of household name brands.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These included meat off-cuts, including horse, that were imported in large frozen blocks from Poland.</span></div> <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --><br /> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT><br /> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript><br /> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> <br /> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contamination has been going on since at least last May and potentially for up to one year, according to evidence presented to MPs earlier this week.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight Burger King abandoned its earlier denials, saying: ‘Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fast food chain had previously denied that it was part of the so-called “horsemeat scandal,” but the contamination appears to have been going on since at least last May and potentially up to a year. The scandal started two weeks ago when the Food Safety Authority of Ireland revealed that it had found horse meat and pork in burgers sold in Ireland and the United Kingdom.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;">In an email late Friday morning, a Burger King spokesman told me that restaurants in the United States “are not impacted” because they do not use products from the Silvercrest Foods plant that processed the patties in Britain.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Read more: <a href="http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/billhandel.html?article=10757305#ixzz2JftiAnJm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a></span><a href="http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/billhandel.html?article=10757305#ixzz2JftiAnJm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/billhandel.html?article=10757305#ixzz2JftiAnJm</a></span></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /> <!-- BEGIN TAG - DO NOT MODIFY --><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ epom_key = "585a1f37f0a87ff49f68b4ff36bf96f4"; epom_channel = ""; epom_code_format = "ads"; epom_ads_host = "//www.adshost2.com"; epom_click = ""; epom_custom_params = {}; epom_width = "728"; epom_height = "90"; epom_sandbox_configuration = "allow-forms, allow-pointer-lock, allow-popups, allow-same-origin, allow-scripts, allow-top-navigation"; document.write("<script type='text\/javascript' src='"+(location.protocol == 'https:' ? 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