adminDeputy director Food Control, Mr Freddy Chishayavanhu told a parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Welfare yesterday that owing to resource constraints, food coming into the country, particularly meat and drinks, could not be tested.
This prompted committee chairperson and Murehwa North MP Cde David Parirenyatwa (Zanu-PF) to ask if it meant that people could even be made to eat horse or donkey meat.
“Can you assure us that we will not have a situation as that happened in South Africa where horse meat was mixed with beef?” asked Cde Parirenyatwa.
“The only test to determine that this is not horse meat is through DNA tests. We do not have that capacity to determine whether we have eaten horse meat, pork or donkey meat because that can only be done through a DNA, which we cannot,” said Mr Chishayavanhu.
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