Processed food products a business segment with traditionally low margins that often leads producers to hunt for the cheapest suppliers often contain ingredients from multiple suppliers in different countries, who themselves at times subcontract production to others, making it hard to monitor every link in the production chain.
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The Court also rejected an argument advanced by the Center for Food Safety that planting is the natural consequence of seeds, even though they are sold by a grain elevator with the intention of being processed into food or other products.
The food products are processed to recover liquid fat which is used in the manufacture of bio-fuels.
"Food businesses supplying processed beef products to public sector premises, including schools, prisons and hospitals, are already involved in an inspection and testing regime led by the Food Standards Agency, " he said.
Had giant food manufacturers avoided packaging their processed products with chemicals and preservatives that extended shelf life and, thereby, profitability while causing various cancers in the bargain, thousands of regulations preventing such behavior would never have been necessary.
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Meanwhile, UK-wide tests on the presence of horsemeat in processed meals have shown that 29 tests on food products found more than 1% horsemeat.
Horsemeat has been found in a number of processed beef products across Europe, raising questions about the food chain.
The FSA in the UK has ordered food businesses to carry out tests on all processed beef products and the first results are expected on Friday.
In the wake of the discoveries, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) ordered food businesses to carry out widespread tests on all processed beef products, including burgers, meatballs and lasagne.
The Food Standards Agency now wants the industry to test all its processed beef products.
Concerns about food standards were sparked after horsemeat was found in a number of processed beef products.
The investigations come as Europe's food industry has been engulfed by a meat processing and labelling scandal after multiple processed meat products labelled as beef were revealed to contain quantities of horsemeat.
The latest product withdrawal comes as the Food Standards Agency prepares to announce the results of industry test results on hundreds of processed beef products for the presence of horsemeat.
Mr Paterson added that the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) advice was to continue buying and eating processed beef products, but if any evidence of a serious threat to health emerged "we will act very swiftly".
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