Information about Meat Processors from FSA, FSS and Food Crime Unit

Your request was about the following information:

Q1. Any information you have, from 2022-2024, about meat processors passing off meat from cattle aged +30 months as meat from cattle aged 30 months and under (cow beef as clean cattle)

Q2. Any information you have from 2022-2024 about meat processors mixing Irish beef with beef from Great Britain

Q3. Any information you have from 2022-2024 about meat processors passing beef from English cattle off as Scottish

Q4. Please include any written communication you may have had with processors on these matters

A1. Information received in this regard would be treated and recorded as intelligence. In this regard disclosing this information would prejudice and investigation so it is exempt under 35(1)(a) (the prevention or detection of crime).

A2. Information received in this regard would be treated and recorded as intelligence. In this regard disclosing this information would prejudice and investigation so it is exempt under 35(1)(a) (the prevention or detection of crime).

A3. Information received in this regard would be treated and recorded as intelligence. In this regard disclosing this information would prejudice and investigation so it is exempt under 35(1)(a) (the prevention or detection of crime). 

A4. Information received in this regard would be treated and recorded as intelligence. In this regard disclosing this information would prejudice and investigation so it is exempt under 35(1)(a) (the prevention or detection of crime).