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European food scandals: mad cow, bogus beef, mutant fish?

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Mad cow, fake alcohol, bogus beef and... mutant fish? Has the European food industry gone mad? As if the horsemeat scandal isn’t enough to knock consumers’ confidence, the European Commission is now set to allow animal proteins to be fed to fish.

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