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Rotten meat for schools and pubs By Laurence Dollimore
EXPATS and locals may have been eating meat that has been kept in squalid conditions for more than THREE years. It comes after a raid on a major meat distribution company in Marratxi found flagrant health and safety violations this week.
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50 tonnes of meat seized after salmonella and three-year-old product found by cops
A staggering 30,000 kilos of frozen meat was found to be expired in a warehouse freezer in Marratxi, while another 7,000 was discovered in a ship container in Palma. Much of the meat, which included salmon and octopus, was also found to contain salmonella. The CEO and two employees were arrested after police discovered they had been changing expiry labels, injecting meat with pig’s blood to increase its weight and defrosting the meat in hot water. Other violations included making employees 16/06/2017 15:36use their own vehicles to transport meat prod-
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ucts. The meat was being distributed to restaurants, hotels and schools across the island. Shockingly, if bad meat was returned, employees washed it and froze it again before selling it on to another unsuspecting business, either as it was or as minced meat. The company has been ordered to stop trading after being declared a danger to public health by police. Its freezers have been sealed and some 50 tonnes of meat have been seized. The company, which has not yet been named, has been operating since 2011, with the health violations dating back to at least
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a year. A separate investigation is looking into the abuse of employee rights after it was discovered that some workers were being forced to work 60 hour weeks without extra pay. Others were forced to sign payslips that said they were paid more than they were, and all employees had to buy most of their equipment themselves - including knives and metal gloves for meat cutting and clothes for working in freezers. Police say they believe they have prevented a salmonella outbreak among at risk populations of children and the elderly.
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