<p><img class=" size-full wp-image-306" src="http://halalnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/halal%20haram.jpg" width="319" height="213" alt="halal haram" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans; background-color: #86bdfe; width: 588px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border: 0px;"> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; color: #0c4790; font-weight: bold;">Shocking: Pork&nbsp;<a title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="#" in_rurl="http://i.trkjmp.com/click?v=RlI6MzQ5MzI6ODk1OmZvdW5kOmQwNzBmMTk4NjE2OGYwMDhkMmU3NjIxZjNjY2JiYmU3OnotMTI3NS03MzU4NDp3d3cuaXNsYW10aW1lcy5vcmc6NDI3NDU6NjZhYzRhNTQ4MTUzYjhmOTZmZjRhMGFmNWRlMmEzOTg" style="text-decoration: underline;">found</a>&nbsp;in Halal meat products in Birmingham</div> <div style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #606060;">Islam Times - The Birmingham city council has revealed that it has found traces of pork in “halal” meat products distributed by a local firm Roshan Foods.</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans; padding: 5px; margin: 0px; background-color: #86bdfe; line-height: normal; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;"> <div style="font-size: 1pt; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; float: left; border: 1px solid black;"><img src="http://www.islamtimes.org/images/docs/000249/n00249719-b.jpg" width="160" height="148" hspace="0" vspace="0" alt="Shocking: Pork found in Halal meat products in Birmingham" title="Shocking: Pork found in Halal meat products in Birmingham" /></div> The discovery was made while testing for traces of horse meat or other kinds of meat following the recent horse meat scandal in the UK. <p>The traces of pork have been found in 20 types of Hamza chicken burgers whose expiry date isn’t until 10 May 2013.</p> <p>A council spokesperson said that further tests are being carried out on other food products distributed by the company and the results would be available next week.</p> <p>Investigators have said that the distributing company, Roshan Foods, is co-operating with them fully and the council spokesperson further pointed out that there was no evidence to show that the company deliberately contaminated the products.</p> <p>Customers of the product have been notified about this development and the product recall process has begun.</p> <p>The council spokesperson also said that they were working closely with other local authorities to investigate exactly how this has happened.</p> </div>