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The Food Programme

More Problems with Poultry?

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4977 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Following years of reporting on UK chicken scandals, Dan Saladino looks at investigations now underway by The Food Standards Agency and MPs into practices at supplier 2 Sisters.

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0:41.0

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0:46.5

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1:04.6

It's not often you get to say this, but for anyone who eats chicken and in the UK that's most of us it's been a dramatic revealing and occasionally angry week.

1:08.3

You're not giving us an answer are you?

1:12.3

You didn't know what was going on in this plant. Why didn't you know? As you

1:17.1

might already be aware there's been a problem with poultry and inside the

1:21.4

House of Commons a few days ago the entire supply chain was put

1:25.5

under scrutiny by a select committee of MPs.

1:29.2

What you are not telling us any of you today is what you're going to do to change it and

1:35.7

put it right we've had absolutely nothing all you talk about is process process

1:41.6

the process didn't work. Is that loud enough and clear enough for you?

1:46.9

It was that this session that some of the most powerful people in poultry felt compelled to say sorry.

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