It was last Wednesday that it became public that meat from the sick cows that are slaughtered in Poland were sold to different countries. One of those countries is Sweden, confirms Nfa. The meat should have been sold to four minor companies in Sweden, but where it has gone then it is nobody knows.
– We track for full. In the afternoon we will go out with a new press release, ” says an obviously depressed Louise Nyholm, statsinspektör on the Nfa, TT.
the Polish company purchased the sick animals, and then slaughtered these during times of day when the slaughter was not monitored by veterinarians. The meat was then labelled as inspected before it is sold on to different countries within the EU.
” As far as we know, has a quarter-ton, 250 kg, of the meat is imported to Sweden. But we have no suspicion that the company that had imported the meat committed something wrong, ” says Louise Nyholm.
”extremely serious” and according to the authority it can act on the violation of food law.
– We consider the meat that is injurious to health. They (the animals) shall veterinärbesiktigas before slaughter and then it should kill the animal are inspected after slaughter. If it turns out that the animal is sick you pick it away from the production, ” says Louise Nyholm.
According to the Polish chefsveterinären Pawel Niemczuk is the total of approximately 2,700 tons of meat, which were sold from Poland, Romania, Sweden, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Latvia and Slovakia.
