Horsemeat and Food Fraud Debate
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Lord Martin of Springburn
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Horsemeat and Food Fraud
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Lord De Mauley
My Lords, I could not have put it better myself and, as I explained, my right honourable friend has been in touch not only with the European Commissioner today but with Ministers from the various other European member states involved. It is extremely important that we collaborate very closely with them.
Lord Martin of Springburn
My Lords, given that it was our Irish neighbours who notified us of this problem, do they have a better safeguarding system than ours?
Lord De Mauley
My Lords, the Irish were acting on intelligence. They conducted their test and, lo and behold, they found horsemeat. We had not received similar intelligence but I have no doubt that our testing regime is absolutely rigorous.