Meat scandal

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Meat scandal is the scandal of illegally gebrachtem circulated for human consumption unsuitable meat . In relation to Germany, this is known colloquially as rotten meat or disgusting meat.

Products used illegally

The meat illegally circulated in meat scandals was:

  • Meat for human consumption, that the use-by date or best before date has had exceeded repackaged and not dated.
  • Meat that was not intended for human consumption but was used for it. According to EU regulation no. 1069/2009, valid since March 4th, 2011, 1774/2002 with validity from May 1st, 2003, it concerns categories K1 and K3 of carcass recycling .
  • incorrectly labeled meat ( fraudulent labeling ).

Examples of meat scandals

  • Was by chance in June 1919 in Hamburg known that the industrialist Jacob healing from tainted meat waste aspic made and this was sold to the starving population. This triggered the so-called brawn riots ; they were bloodily suppressed by the Reichswehr requested by Gustav Noske and by the Freikorps ; 80 people died. Jacob Heil was found guilty by the court and sentenced on October 25, 1919 to three months in prison and a fine of 1,000 Reichsmarks.
  • The animal disease BSE ("mad cow disease") was triggered in the 1980s and 1990s by feeding animal meal .
  • In the rotten meat scandal in November 2005 involving a meat wholesaler from Gelsenkirchen, 131 tons of beef and turkey meat were seized in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hamburg. The meat trader was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for commercial fraud and violation of food law based on proven marketing of around 400 tons of rotten meat.
  • In autumn 2005, further meat scandals became known. In total, thousands of tons of spoiled, expired or relabeled meat were confiscated.
  • In September 2006, around 100 tons of what was originally a much larger amount of spoiled meat - including kebab and duck meat - were seized in Munich. The meat seized was up to four years old. A much larger amount had already been delivered to 26 companies in Munich and was being consumed. Further cases in this connection became known nationwide.
  • In August 2007, a scandal involving around 200 tons of so-called K3 meat , which was not suitable for human consumption, became public in Wertingen, Bavaria . The goods had arrived at the wholesaler as K3 material and were relabeled there. The meat was apparently used from June 2006 to August 2007 primarily for the production of doner kebab in Berlin, but also in other parts of Germany. The seller from Bavaria was sentenced to two years in prison without parole.
  • In September 2009, a warehouse full of canned meat up to 26 years old was discovered in Sosnowiec, Poland . They came from stocks of the Swedish army and were brought to Poland through several intermediaries. Several companies in the local food industry bought the material and used it for products such as meatballs and pierogies , which were sold to canteens, canteens and kindergartens.
  • More than 20 suspects were arrested in March 2017 as part of the Operação Carne Fraca of the Polícia Federal who were involved in a meat scandal in Brazil . The largest meat exporter JBS SA and the BRF company were also affected ; Owners of brands such as Friboi, Sadia and Perdigao. In addition, 33 food inspectors were dismissed, three production facilities were closed and 21 companies were placed under special observation. On March 25, 2017, the European Union ordered a ban on imports of meat from 21 Brazilian companies.
  • In 2019, Wilke Waldecker Fleisch- und Wurstwaren had to file for preliminary bankruptcy after three deaths from Listeria . Also, IKEA Germany was by the global recall affected.

The Federal Association of the German Food Industry expressed the suspicion in September 2006 that a much larger amount of 15,000 tons of previously undiscovered rotten meat was in circulation.

Horse meat scandal in Europe in 2013

In February 2013, it was proven that several European countries were using horse meat instead of beef in the production of food (e.g. frozen lasagne, burgers). In some of the subsequent food examinations it was found that meat was also used, which is unsuitable for human consumption due to exposure to the drug phenylbutazone .

Slaughter of sick animals in Poland 2019

End of January 2019 in the Polish Masovian through investigative journalism radio station TVN24 a case of corruption , slaughtered known in which secretly sick cows and declared healthy were. The meat of the sick animals was then, according to the current state, in Germany, France, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and Portugal. On February 1, 2019, it became known that the EU Commission had initiated an investigation and the affected slaughterhouse was closed. The meat is said to be traced and taken off the market. It is not yet known whether the beef is already on the market.

Consumer protection

Meat inspection by official veterinarian in the USA

On July 1, 2008, new provisions of the EU Commission came into force, which allow improved tracing, evaluation and identification of animal by-products. The material category 1 and 2 is intended for intra-European trade glyceroltriheptanoate be labeled. The coloring of category 3 products is permitted at national level .

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  1. ↑ BVL: Repackaged and re-dated - consumer deception or legal practice?
  2. ↑ eur-lex.europa.eu
  3. ↑ 1919 food scandal: Guilt and brawn one day on Spiegel Online , accessed on January 7, 2012
  4. ↑ 10/2005: Environment & Nutrition: Rotten meat from Gelsenkirchen
  5. ↑ 11/2005: 131 tonnes seized, rotten meat scandal spreads  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  6. ↑ FAZ.net: Meat trade in the hotel room
  7. ^ Tagesspiegel.de: Food scandal: prison sentence in rotten meat trial
  8. ↑ 12/2005: Foodwatch: One rotten meat scandal after another
  9. ↑ Nutrition scandal: Disgusting meat mainly consumed Focus online , September 4, 2006
  10. ^ Rotten meat from Hamburg: Dealer arrested Hamburger Abendblatt , September 13, 2006
  11. ↑ 8/2007: Tagesspiegel online: Akkordausbeiner and Gammeldöner
  12. ↑ Max Hägler: Kebab skewers continue to gammeln in taz, the daily newspaper of September 7, 2007
  13. ↑ 8/2007: Focus online: FOOD SCANDAL: Up to 180 tons of rotten meat
  14. ^ Another kebab manufacturer from Berlin bought Ekelfleisch Berliner Zeitung , September 6, 2007
  15. ↑ Meat trader has to be jailed for two years, Der Spiegel , August 10, 2011
  16. ↑ TV program «Uwaga!»: Reportaże - Jemy stare mięso ( Memento from September 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), broadcast on September 25, 2009 on tvn (Polish).
  17. ↑ Seis perguntas para entender a operação Carne Fraca. In: epoca.globo.com. March 18, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Rotten meat found with carcinogenic substances. In: Welt Online . March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  19. ↑ UE pede que Brasil explique fraude da carne. In: R7 Eentretenimento. March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Brazil: EU stops rotten meat imports. In: Zeit Online . March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  21. ↑ https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/listerien-skandal-um-wilke-im-news-ticker-wuerste-haetten-auf-muell-gehoert-dann-wurden-sie-verkauf_id_11203271.html
  22. ↑ Ikea: Wilke also supplied Ikea restaurants, cold cuts affected. In: spiegel.de. October 7, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Fears of the food industry: 15,000,000 kilograms of rotten meat ( memento of the original dated February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Spiegel online , September 16, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiegel.de
  24. ^ Article at Spiegel Online, accessed on February 14, 2013
  25. ^ Article at Spiegel Online, accessed on February 14, 2013
  26. ↑ Sick cows secretly slaughtered. In: schweizerbauer.ch . January 28, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Brussels investigates Polish meat scandal - 13 countries are affected. In: nzz.ch . February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  28. ↑ 10 tons of rotten beef from Poland - 800 kilos in France. In: de.euronews.com . February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Europe Press Releases: Member States agree to new traceability rules for animal by-products  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / europa.eu  
  30. ↑ BVL: Background information on the coloring of animal by-products

literature

  • K. Meyer-Kullmann: Food scandals and consumer reactions. Analysis of the effects of food scandals with special consideration of information behavior. Shown using the example of BSE. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34928-9 (dissertation at the Technical University of Munich)
  • Matthias Horst, Otto A. Strecker (Hrsg.): Crisis management in the food industry. Behr, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89947-302-7

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