Finland Times

The Food Safety Authority, Evira on Thursday said that found horse meat in number products being sold in the market.

Some food supply authorities including Vaasan food Service, Poutun, and SeaGood Limited, said that they were taking the products contain Horse meat away of the market.

 Evira, the sole authority in Finland to oversee the quality control in the food market, however, confirmed that the products containing horse meat are not hazardous for human consumption.

The agency has informed the local government that the horse meat contained products are being taken away of market and they are taking strict measure to control the issues in future.

The European Union has recently expressed confusion over the horse meat scandal created due to its wrong leveling in the marketing procedure, which disclosed the unfair business treatment by the companies related with meat production and meat marketing. 

Pekka Kosonen, the Chief Executive Officer of another food marketing company, Poutun, said that the horse meat product is essential for some of the meat as for example kebab, but the missing point is it has not mentioned in the level. 

The mislabeling has created the debate and the whole course of event lies on human error, He pointed out that manufacturing procedure went wrong in the certain point.

The CEO of poutun, however, reaffirmed that the troubled meat has been withdrawn from the market and the company taking initiative to control its products more strictly than before.

Canada and Brazil are the major horse meat exporting countries to Finland.

Meanwhile, reported YLE reported that Finland's Agriculture and Forestries Ministry said that the food production companies must live up to their responsibilities over labeling of meat products.

"If self-regulation is found wanting, there could be criminal proceedings as a consequence," Veli-Mikko Niemi of the ministry's food safety unit.