Going Beyond Zero
By Carmen Lim
Food inspectors have issued a grim warning that more infected animals could enter the food chain because of a shakeup in the inspection process which, they say, means some of the millions of animals they reject each year as unfit for human consumption could still reach Britain's plates. Figures collected from UK factories show that millions of carcasses carrying parasites such as tapeworm and animals infected with pneumonia, septicaemia, peritonitis and tumours were removed from the food chain by official inspectors between 2012 and 2014. Read on about this horrific finding and what will be done to solve the problem at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/infected-meat-food-inspectors-warning.
By Carmen Lim
By Clover Ng
