Burger King suspect supplier Exchange

The Burger King chain of restaurants will no longer buy beef for its hamburgers sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland of an Irish supplier that mixed horse meat in their products.
An investigation carried out by the Irish authorities recently revealed the presence of DNA of horse in hamburger meat sold as beef in Britain and Ireland.
One of three plants at issue, Silvercrest, purveyor of Burger King, acknowledged the adulteration of meat in a statement.
"As a precaution, last weekend decided to replace all products Silvercrest in United Kingdom and Ireland by another supplier approved by Burger King," said the group, noting that it was a measure taken voluntarily.
Burger King now seek other suppliers capable of producing meat burgers 100% of British and Irish beef. But this could take time and some products may become temporarily unavailable, explained the world number two in the industry.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) had tested 27 burgers that they be exclusively based on beef and horse DNA traces found in pork samples and 10 in 23. Mostly found little horse meat, less in a sample sold in a supermarket Tesco, in which there was 29%.
Even if the burgers tampered with do not represent danger to human health, the case provoked a scandal in the United Kingdom and Ireland, two countries where to eat horse meat became a taboo. The British Prime Minister David Cameron came to come right out and consider the case as "extremely serious".