UK: Food company ’sold tainted meat to schools’ - (Telegraph)
November 28, 2007 – 8:20 pmA former employee was cited as saying that McLaren Foods, based in Ashford, Kent, supplied contaminated meat to Government departments, prestigious schools and top hotels.
The story says that the company, which has since gone into administration, also supplied hospitals including London Chest Hospital, Ipswich and Royal Marsden and care homes.
Former driver Alan Castle was cited as telling Radio 4s Today programme that he frequently had rotten meat in the back of his van and that he was instructed to leave meat on the doorstep of premises if there was no-one there to take it, leaving it open to vermin or contamination.
And he claimed if a delivery was not made, meat was routinely left in unrefrigerated vans for up to 24 hours before it was taken back to the customer the following day, stating, “In the back of the van it was quite often rotten meat, even after you had turned […]
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