Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Burger Content Investigations: Discussion
3:20 pm
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I can be helpful here. When one looks at the records - this is not a scientific thing - one can establish what goes into burgers by looking at the ingredients records, assuming one has been given accurate information. That obviously has to be verified. With any burger - this is an example of a batch of samples with ingredients going into individual burgers, some of which tested positive - one will see different meats going in from different sources. When the overall product is tested, one can establish the amount of bovine DNA versus equine DNA in terms of the meat content, but different batches have different ingredients-----
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