article_snippet: Southwark Crown Court heard how in 2013, Food Standards Agency requested paperwork for carcasses that passed through the slaughterhouse in 2012.
article_snippet: Sentencing Judge Alistair McCreath emphasised this, but noted the importance of properly documenting meat for health and safety reasons.
article_snippet: Accordingly I must sentence each of you not on the basis you were complicit in putting horse meat into the human food chain.
article_snippet: The traceability of food products, here meat, is of critical importance in relation to public health.
article_snippet: ‘If meat causes ill health then meat causes ill health is important that those responsible for investigating the cause and trace the cause backwards and backwards and backwards to find where the problem lies and to prevent the problem escalating and those who keep poor records frustrate that very important public interest and interest which touches on public health and public safety.
article_snippet: The contaminated meat was found to .
article_snippet: lasagne which was almost entirely made up of The contaminated meat.
article_snippet: In response to traces of the animal being found across Europe, the Food Standards Agency instructed 2,501 tests to be carried out in Britain.