Forget Horse Meat, It is Poop that may be in your cake now
When reports came out that huge numbers of samples of beef products in Europe were found with horse meat the concern of this blogger was less with horse meat than with the fact of fraudulent labeling. If a company is willing to fool with adulteration who knows what else they may be mixing in to the meat? As a consequence, this blogger suggested in a previous post that samples must be tested not just for horse meat as was being ordered by regulators but with all kinds of other meats such as dog etc. Tests for just horse meat will not reveal rats for example. I do not know if any one that matters read and followed up on my suggestion but it seems that the Chinese went ahead and tested for poop products. Guess what the chocolate cakes were being flavored with besides almonds? Read this post; http://grist.org/list/ikea-cake-turns-out-to-come-with-extra-feces/ To quote briefly from it, “Chinese officials destroyed 1,800 pounds of -- almond cakes , when ...