<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><img class=" size-full wp-image-255" src="http://halalnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20664_295827089733_3636547_n.jpg" width="580" height="386" alt="20664 295827089733 3636547 n" /></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-size: 1.5714em; line-height: 1.4545em; color: #333333;">County council refuses to identify Lancashire schools that received horsemeat</h3> <p class="articleInfo clearfix" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 0.7857em; color: #666666; border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-style: dotted none; border-top-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="articleDateTime" style="float: right; margin-left: 30px; max-width: 250px; text-align: right;">2:17pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburndarwenhyndburnribble/" style="color: #3f86ae;">News</a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">LANCASHIRE County Council bosses were last night still refusing to identify the 51 schools which received beef products, including halal beefburgers and cottage pies, containing horsemeat.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Lancashire Council of Mosques demanded they provide the information to the public and said its intervention had stopped the scandal of contaminated “halal” products being worse.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hanif Daudhwala, a halal expert at the LCM, said: “The county council should identify the four secondary schools which got contaminated “halal” burgers and the 47 primaries which got similar cottage pies.</p> <div class="mpu" id="OAS_Left2" style="height: 250px; margin: 0px 10px 2px 0px; float: left; max-width: 300px; overflow: hidden; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> <div id="OAS_AD_Left2" style="visibility: visible;">&nbsp;</div> </div> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“They have let down not just Muslim parents but all parents.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“Things could have been far worse but for the intervention of the LCM which contacted all the 68 schools being supplied by the county with supposedly Halal foods expressing our concerns. “Most chose a vegetarian&nbsp;<a title="Click to Continue &gt; by SavingsSlider" id="_GPLITA_0" href="http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburndarwenhyndburnribble/10258872.County_council_refuses_to_identify_Lancashire_schools_that_received_horsemeat/" in_rurl="http://i.trkjmp.com/click?v=RlI6MjE3OTc6MTE4OmRpZXQ6MmNmYzI1Y2E3Y2E5NDc0YmY5NTY3OGE1MWUwZDM5YzQ6ei0xMzc0LTEzNTg5Nzp3d3cubGFuY2FzaGlyZXRlbGVncmFwaC5jby51azoxMDY5OjljMjRjNTgzNWQ4YzlkN2I4ZjdiM2YwZmRmNjkzODk2" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #3f86ae;">diet</a>&nbsp;for Muslims.”</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A county spokesman said: "As a supplier of meals to the schools, it would not be appropriate to issue this information without each school's consent but individual schools are obviously free to confirm their involvement."</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/search/?search=Tesco&amp;topic_id=7461" target="_self" style="color: #3f86ae;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tesco</a>&nbsp;boss Philip Clarke has promised farmers to use more British meat in his supermarket’s products.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; line-height: 18px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Source Telegraph Lancashire</p>