Aussie butchers fined for dosing meat with SO2

Two Sydney butchers have been fined for selling meet that had been dosed with sulphur dioxide a known food allergen. The Ausfoodnews article states that:

"Sadik Brothers Butchery in Auburn was fined $11,550 for six dosing offences, while Teng Cheng Butchery in Lakemba received a $3,993 fine for three breaches.

“The Auburn incident is particularly worrying because it involved two separate inspections by the Food Authority only a month apart,” Minister Macdonald reported. “On each occasion they found dosed lamb, mutton and beef products.”"

For more details follow the link.

We had a similar incident in the UK in 2000. 1,300 tons of condemned poultry was sold into Britain's supermarkets, butchers and restaurants over three years. Three the men, all executives of meat supply firms, were convicted of offences in an operation that was estimated to have earned a £2.9m profit. Condemned meat had been bleached and then sold into the human supply chain. Follow the link to find out more.