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Another meat scandal over supermarket poultry sausage? Tönnies group defends itself

2022-06-23T13:25:27.407Z


Another meat scandal over supermarket poultry sausage? Tönnies group defends itself Created: 06/23/2022Updated: 06/23/2022 15:12 By: Patrick Freiwah Studies allegedly show that manufacturers from Tönnies do not comply with legal requirements. The meat company denies the allegations. Hamburg - The German food industry is threatened with new troubles: local manufacturers of poultry sausage are s


Another meat scandal over supermarket poultry sausage?

Tönnies group defends itself

Created: 06/23/2022Updated: 06/23/2022 15:12

By: Patrick Freiwah

Studies allegedly show that manufacturers from Tönnies do not comply with legal requirements.

The meat company denies the allegations.

Hamburg - The German food industry is threatened with new troubles: local manufacturers of poultry sausage are said to have used mechanically separated meat (crushed slaughterhouse residues) in poultry sausage and other meat products, but did not label this properly.

Laboratory tests "provided evidence", reports the

NDR

and the

mirror

.

The accused companies of the slaughter group Tönnies, which is in the public eye due to poor hygiene, dubious working conditions and animal cruelty, have already denied the reports.

According to a statement, they would reject the use of mechanically separated meat for qualitative reasons and also question the examination method.

Poultry sausage from Tönnies: Professor focuses on various products

Both

NDR

and

Spiegel

had 30 poultry sausage and poultry meat samples from various manufacturers examined by Bremerhaven university professor Stefan Wittke.

The media reported that he had developed a method to detect MSM in sausage products.

So far this has hardly been possible.

The Tönnies meat plant is once again in the public eye due to laboratory tests.

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However, the accusation is not only aimed at Germany's largest meat producer, Tönnies Holding.

Other companies are accused of using coarsely chopped bones and animal carcasses.

Five of the nine products that tested positive were manufactured by the "Zur Mühlen Group", under the umbrella of the Tönnies group of companies.

The topic of label tricks at food manufacturers has existed for many years.

Tönnies meat enriched with leftovers?

Sausage manufacturer defends himself

Mechanically separated meat is produced by machines pressing animal carcasses or coarsely chopped bones with meat residue through perforated discs, as reported by

NDR

and

Spiegel

.

Bone splinters and pieces of cartilage get caught, all soft parts such as muscles, fat and connective tissue or even the spinal cord are squeezed off.

This creates a mushy mass that costs only cents per kilogram.

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However, spokesmen for the companies named in the report said that the new examination method of the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences was merely a new scientific approach to possible evidence that "was not a solid basis".

Regular in-house tests based on recognized methods proved the opposite.

(dpa/pf)

Source: merkur

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