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Unveiling the Horsemeat Scandal: Implications, Risks, and Reactions

Explore the 2013 horsemeat scandal revealing undeclared horse meat in foods across Europe. Learn about health risks, detection methods, and governmental reactions.

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Unveiling the Horsemeat Scandal: Implications, Risks, and Reactions

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  1. Horsemeat scandal Food scandals

  2. Outline • General remarks • Countries • Healthrisks • Analyticmethod • Reactions

  3. General remarks • foods advertised as containing beef were found to contain undeclared horsemeat • came to light on 15 January 2013 • horse DNA had been discovered in frozen beef burgers sold in British supermarkets • Also found pig meat  taboo food to the Muslim and Jewish • Horsemeat from Romania is less expensive

  4. Countries • Germany • Great Britain • Austria • Switzerland • Czechia

  5. Health risks • Horse meat is usually not harmful to health • harmfulingredients like Phenylbutazone found • used as doping agent for sports horses • 500–600 burgers containing 100% horsemeat would need to be eaten to receive the daily human therapeutic dose

  6. Analytic method: double gel diffusion • Diffusion from antigen and antibody in agar culture media • Formation of precipitation at optimum conditions  visible as line

  7. Analysis at an example • Ag1: postiveanalytofhorsemeat • Ag2: unknownanalytofmeat • As: Antiserum ofhorsemeat • Comparethelines • a) homogeneouslineschowsidentity • Ag2ishorsemeat • b) onlyonelinebetweenthe positiv analyt • Ag2isnohorsemeat a) b)

  8. Reactions • EU agriculture ministers announced a three-month programme of DNA testing of processed meat across the European Union • 23 May 2013 Willy Selten was arrested for selling 300 tonnes of horsemeat as beef • Up to 20 people were arrested • Consumer protection minister of Germany want tighter requirement to label • to expensive for the consumers  no changes until today!

  9. summerizing • 15 January 2013 itcameto light thatfoodscontainundeclaredhorsemeat • Foundhorsemeat in beefburgers, lasagne, goulashanddonerkebab • Involved countries: Germany, Great Britain, Austria, CzechiaandSwitzerland • horsemeatis not harmfultohealth but a taboofood in many countries • but veterinarydrugphenylbutazonehasenteredthefoodsupplychain • Analyticmethods: double geldiffusion, DNA analysis • Consumer protectionministerwant a tighterrequirementtolabel to expensive

  10. Indication of source • http://img.allvoices.com/thumbs/image/609/609/96338373-horse-meat-scandal.jpg • http://www.bbc.com/news/business-25715666 • http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylbutazon • http://www.topagrar.com/news/Home-top-News-Pferdefleischskandal-2014-steht-vor-der-Tuer-1344661.html • http://www.chm.tu-dresden.de/lc/praktikum/lc2/folien_immun_2012.pdf • http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/ein-jahr-nach-dem-pferdefleischskandal-ist-in-der-eu-wenig-passiert-a-951882.html

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