Britain's Rotten Meat Scandal

Ten years on from the horse meat crisis, a new scandal has engulfed almost the entire food retail sector. Huge quantities of foreign pork - sometimes tens of thousands of tonnes a week - has been passed off, fraudulently as British. One meat processor - who can't be named for legal reasons - has been accused by former employees of 'washing' hams that are visibly rotten, or mixing bad meat with fresh produce. They even allege paperwork - which would pick up infections like bacteria or E.coli - was being falsified. We talk to the Farmers Weekly journalist who broke the story Abi Kay. And we dip into the 'vagina-scented' ski slopes of Utah to visit the trial of the century - Gwyneth Paltrow v Terry Sanderson. At the time of publication, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) had not provided us with a comment after we approached them. You can watch our episodes in full at https://global-player.onelink.me/Br0x/Videos The News Agents is a Global Player Original and a Persephonica Production. [Two hours after the episode was published, the FSA provided us with this statement: “We are continuing our criminal investigation into how a meat supplier allegedly provided products labelled as British w…