{"id":5964,"date":"2013-03-06T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/03\/06\/mp-receives-assurances-over-contaminated-prison-halal-food\/"},"modified":"2013-03-06T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:24:32","slug":"mp-receives-assurances-over-contaminated-prison-halal-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/06\/mp-receives-assurances-over-contaminated-prison-halal-food\/","title":{"rendered":"MP receives assurances over contaminated Prison \u2018Halal\u2019 food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan will continue to monitor issue<\/h3>\n
SADIQ Khan MP, Shadow Justice Secretary, has received reassurances from the Government, following concerns on the contamination of halal meat in prison food.
<\/strong>Last month tests revealed that contractors providing food to prisons in England and Wales had contaminated halal food with traces of pork DNA. Prisons were subsequently informed and the food withdrawn.

\nOutraged by the announcement, Mr Khan contacted the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, to raise his concerns. He asked important questions such as how long the food had been contaminated, what other food had been affected and what financial penalties will be imposed on the supplier for the cost of disruption caused by the contamination.

\nMr Khan said he had received reassurances from the Justice Secretary, which assures that the National offender Management Service (NOMS) are in the process of reviewing the situation to ensure all food products provided through the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) meet the quality standards expected.

\nThe MoJ is currently working to determine which prisons were provided with contaminated products.

\nIt is not known how long the food was contaminated for, but Mr Khan has been assured that the contamination was limited to a small number of pies, pasties and sausage rolls.

\nHe said he will continue to monitor this issue to ensure there is no further contamination of prison food.

\nHe has also written to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Secretary of State, Owen Patterson, to make sure that halal food is also tested as part of the horsemeat scandal.

\n“I was extremely concerned by last month\u2019s announcement and continue to be worried about the contamination of all halal food,\u201d Mr Khan said. <\/div>\n

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\u201cI have also written to the Food Standards Agency and to the Secretary of State, Owen Patterson to seek assurances about all halal food.

\n“It is important that the MoJ looks into how this was able to happen and how wide the problem was. British Muslims need to be reassured that every effort is being made to make sure that this does not happen again. The Muslim community deserves to know that food labelled as halal is indeed halal\u201d<\/div>\n

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Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan will continue to monitor issue SADIQ Khan MP, Shadow Justice Secretary, has received reassurances from the Government, following concerns on the contamination of halal meat in prison food. Last month tests revealed that contractors providing food to prisons in England and Wales had contaminated halal food with traces of pork […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}