Halal food contained pork
Date published: 05 February 2013
A FOOD distributor with a depot in Royton has named a company which supplied prisons with halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA. Islamic law forbids the consumption of pork.
The 3663 company confirmed all halal products from McColgan Quality Foods Limited, a Northern Irish-based company, had been withdrawn.
The Royton firm has not been suspended, but a “subcontractor” has been, with an investigation taking place. The incident follows last month’s horse meat scandal, where horse DNA was found in supermarket burgers.
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