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Supermarkets still feeling impact of horsemeat scandal

Almost one third of shoppers have lost in faith in their supermarket's ability to provide uncontaminated meat a year on from the horse meat scandal. It emerged horse meat DNA had been found in frozen burgers in mid-January last year.

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Food testing down 6.8% over the past year

There is a "huge variation" in food hygiene standards across the UK, according to a Which? investigation launched in the wake of the horse meat scandal.

Food testing by local authorities fell by 6.8% over the past year, the group found.

The investigation by the consumer group into 395 local authorities across the UK used Food Standards Agency data and found:

  • Bexley in London was the poorest performing local authority, with five other London councils in our bottom 10 (Ealing, Enfield, Harrow, Richmond upon Thames and Southwark).
  • Cherwell District Council in North Oxfordshire was rated as the best performing local authority.
  • No official hygiene sampling was carried out at all by Bexley, Christchurch, Isles of Scilly, Medway, Tamworth, West Lindsey and West Yorkshire in 2012/13.
  • The overall testing rate fell by 6.8% in 2013.
  • Testing for labelling and presentation fell by 16.2%

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