A European Union directive has been blamed for paving the way for the meat horse crisis after it changed the rules governing the inspection of meat cutting plants.
The directive, issued by EU officials in 2006, scrapped daily inspections at plants where slaughtered animals are butchered into parts before being processed into ready meals.
Following the introduction of the directive meat inspectors from the UK's Food Standards Agency began to give plant operators advance notice of their visits, sometimes as far ahead as two months – thus allowing them to prepare for inspections.
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