FSA delayed plans to test every horse prior to crisis

UK NEWS Cross-posted from BBC News Written by MATT McGRATH, Environment Correspondent, BBC News The Food Standards Agency (FSA) explored the idea of testing all horses slaughtered in the UK months before the horsemeat food crisis began in January. But the agency was concerned that the costs of extra testing would cause every horse abattoir…

Northern Ireland’s only horse slaughtering house stops

Cross-posted from the Londonderry Sentinel The only approved horse-slaughtering house in Northern Ireland has stopped killing horses, the Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has revealed. She explained that the Armagh plant asked the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to remove its authorisation and stopped killing horses at the end of January. “There was one slaughter plant in…