date:Apr 22, 2014
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has kicked off an additional program to ensure priority testing of lamb dishes from takeaway restaurants across the country, and prosecute the businesses if found to be deliberately mislabeling foods.
The move follows reports of substitution of lamb for cheaper meats like beef and chicken.
Between July and December 2013, an FSA review of local authority sampling data discovered 43 out of 145 samples of lamb takeaway meals that contained meat other than lamb.