It wasn't on the label, it was in the jar. Let's talk about horsemeat, the food ghost that has been haunting the dreams of European health authorities for weeks. This time in the dock is Ragù Star. The Ministry of Health has communicated that the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna has found undeclared horsemeat in four products taken by the Nas of Milan in the Star factory in Agrate Brianza.
The horse ragù quartet is composed as follows: Star Gran Ragù with vegetables, Star Ragù Bolognese, Classic Star Gran Ragù, tomato sauce with beef, pork and olive oil. After the European alert, the company had already implemented the self-monitoring block and the procedures for withdrawing finished products from the market.
The Nas of Milan has seized the more than 300 packages already subjected to precautionary sanitary seizure by judicial means. But now the charge is commercial fraud. According to the company, consignments of frozen minced meat from Romania and purchased by the French supplier Gel Alpes of Saint Maurice – Manosque, already targeted by the French authorities, had been used in the offending products. Today's is the fourth case of equine DNA positivity found since the start of the control operations.
