Four years post-horsegate: an update of measures and actions put in place following the horsemeat incident of 2013

ARTICLE OPEN Four years post-horsegate: an update of measures and actions put in place following the horsemeat incident of 2013 Stephanie Brooks 1 , Christopher T. Elliott 1 , Michelle Spence 1 , Christine Walsh 2 and Moira Dean 1 Complexities in food supply chains were highlighted by the so called ‘horsegate’ crisis in 2013, where beef meat was fraudulently adulterated with horse meat causing widespread recalls and subsequent investigations across both retail and food service markets in the...