<h1 class="bigtitle" style="margin: 10px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.38em; color: #010000; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130327/180281741.html" class="dblue"><img class=" size-full wp-image-281" src="http://halalnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fotolia4235235xs.gif" width="222" height="148" alt="fotolia4235235xs" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a></h1> <h1 class="bigtitle" style="margin: 10px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.38em; color: #010000; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130327/180281741.html" class="dblue">Pig DNA Found in Halal Meat Plant in Moscow</a></h1> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #010000; font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <div class="ncentered box" style="margin: 10px auto 2px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid #d5d5d5;"><a href="http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130327/180281741.html" style="color: #010000;"><img src="http://en.rian.ru/images/18028/18/180281893.jpg" width="462" height="174" alt="Pig DNA Found in Halal Meat Plant in Moscow" title="Pig DNA Found in Halal Meat Plant in Moscow" class="visible" style="margin: 1px auto;" /></a> <div class="copyright topborder" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 11px 7px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #d5d5d5; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.909em; font-family: Georgia;">Pig DNA Found in Halal Meat Plant in Moscow</p> <span style="font-size: 0.94em; color: #010000; font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.rian.ru/" style="color: #838383;">© RIA Novosti. Valeriy Titievskiy</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="data orange f-left" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; float: left; font-size: 0.57em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 0.94em; color: #010000; font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif;">17:37&nbsp;</span>27/03/2013</div> <div class="clear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 0.94em; color: #010000; font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif;">MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) – Pig DNA has been found in sausages and ham produced at a halal meat processing plant in Moscow, fresh testing results revealed Wednesday, although this does not necessarily mean that the products actually contain pork, a spokesman for the institute that conducted the tests said.</span></div> <div class="rline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #d5d5d5;"> <div class="body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.94em;"> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">“The DNA traces that have been discovered may be a result of contact with raw meat consisting of pork or pork products,” said Boris Gutnik of the Gorbatov All-Russian Meat Research Institute.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">He said that the discovery did not necessarily mean that the products should be prohibited under the halal law, saying that the PCR analysis that was used to conduct the tests could be “inexact.”</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Gutnik called for checks to be conducted at the slaughterhouses, saying that if cattle were slaughtered in the same place as pigs, that could explain the presence of the pig DNA in the halal products.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">The institute spokesman said that all the facilities and equipment that Moscow’s Tsaritsino meat processing plant uses to produce halal meat are “completely separate from other processes.”</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Additional tests for the presence of pig DNA in the meat products will be conducted at three independent testing centers in Russia and one center abroad.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Moscow’s Tsaritsino meat processing plant has been supplying halal meat products to the Russia Mufties Council’s International Center for Halal Standardization and Certification since 2007.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;">Source : Rianovosti</p> </div> </div> </div>