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February 18, 2013, Monday
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A poll out yesterday found that almost a third of adults in Britain have stopped eating ready-meals as a result of the horsemeat scandal, while 7 percent have stopped eating meat altogether.
The ComRes survey, for the Sunday Mirror and The Independent on Sunday newspapers, found that 31 percent have given up eating ready-meals as the discovery of equine flesh in products labelled beef spreads across Europe.
The poll also found a 53 percent to 33 percent majority in favor of banning the import of all meat products "until we can be sure of their origin."
Some 44 percent agreed the British government had responded well to the crisis, while 30 percent disagreed.
ComRes interviewed 2,002 adults online on Wednesday and Thursday.
Twenty-nine beef products out of 2,501 tested in Britain have been found to contain more than 1 percent horsemeat, its Food Standards Agency said on Friday.
The scandal has left governments scrambling to figure out how and where the mislabelling happened in the sprawling chain of production spanning a maze of abattoirs and meat suppliers across Europe.
"We need to restore consumer confidence," said Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
"That is why we are working flat-out now with the European authorities, with other European countries and, of course, introducing things that we should now do on a more systematic debate like random testing."
Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband criticized the governing coalition, saying that it had been too slow to grasp the situation.
Meanwhile FSA chief executive Catherine Brown conceded that the numbers of people who have unwittingly eaten horse will never be known.
The ComRes survey, for the Sunday Mirror and The Independent on Sunday newspapers, found that 31 percent have given up eating ready-meals as the discovery of equine flesh in products labelled beef spreads across Europe.
The poll also found a 53 percent to 33 percent majority in favor of banning the import of all meat products "until we can be sure of their origin."
Some 44 percent agreed the British government had responded well to the crisis, while 30 percent disagreed.
ComRes interviewed 2,002 adults online on Wednesday and Thursday.
Twenty-nine beef products out of 2,501 tested in Britain have been found to contain more than 1 percent horsemeat, its Food Standards Agency said on Friday.
The scandal has left governments scrambling to figure out how and where the mislabelling happened in the sprawling chain of production spanning a maze of abattoirs and meat suppliers across Europe.
"We need to restore consumer confidence," said Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
"That is why we are working flat-out now with the European authorities, with other European countries and, of course, introducing things that we should now do on a more systematic debate like random testing."
Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband criticized the governing coalition, saying that it had been too slow to grasp the situation.
Meanwhile FSA chief executive Catherine Brown conceded that the numbers of people who have unwittingly eaten horse will never be known.
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