Scandal : Beef contaminated TB

They are no less than 3 000 tons of meat, either 8 000 cattle, contaminated with tuberculosis that ends each year on our plates.

It's the Chained duck which reveals this information with, Apui, DGAL documents (Directorate General of Food).

This situation is alarming but legal !

Indeed, This practice is known and authorized by the health authorities because, according to them, The risk of human contamination is not possible when the animal is rid of its infected organs (liver and kidneys). Concretely when a cattle is diagnosed with sick, He is sent to the slaughterhouse.

Added to this is also the British beef. Great Britain has “used to selling a part of [ses] contaminated carcasses“ reports the weekly. They are no less than 28 000 beasts English in contaminated at tuberculosis which end up on the plates of several European countries including France (Sunday Times – 2013).

A price story ?

Breeders, who are compensated by the state when their cattle are contaminated, sell their carcasses to lower price to supermarkets (between 3,5 and 1,5 € and kg) who, they, sell meat at the same price as that of healthy beef.

The Bigard group is among the companies accused of making money on contaminated meat. Recall that Bigard is also Charal and Socopa.

This meat giant that holds nearly 50% market, indirectly benefits from a quarter of public aid.

Est-ce réellement sans danger ?

Un responsable de la DGAL aurait affirmé “For more than 30 years, in France, personne n’a attrapé la tuberculose en mangeant du beef“. Pourtant les transmissions du bovin à l’homme existent. L’hebdomadaire affirme qu’une cinquantaine de contaminations pour cette raison ont lieu chaque année. Cela est le cas chez, among others, les éleveurs, vétérinaires et chez ceux qui boivent du lait cru, non pasteurisé, produit par une vache malade.

Meat : Scandales à répétition

La filière n’est plus à un scandale près. Cette nouvelle affaire fait suite aux nombreux rappels que nous partageons sur Dangers Alimentaires concernant de la viande contaminée par l’E. coli ou par des Salmonella to the viande remballée or avariée, ou encore au scandale de la Horse meat in ravioli…