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...Seventeen per cent of Romania’s population are employed but on the brink of poverty — the highest rate in Europe, according to Eurostat. The EU average is 9.6 per cent....
...He says the location of workplaces has changed too, from smaller abattoirs spread around the country to a much-reduced group of large ones in rural areas (because it’s easier to get the animals there)....
...The company is facing rising criticism for the poor working and living conditions of its employees, many of whom are from Romania and Bulgaria and work for an outside agency....
...Blood and water slop into his boots from the abattoir floor. Workers have to ask the foreman for permission to go to the toilet, he says....
...Police said 21 people had been arrested after the dawn raids in 11 different regions that targeted meat traders, abattoirs and vets....
...“Romania seems to be a country people point fingers at,” it said....
...“They delivered the meat to someone in Cyprus,” he told the Financial Times, suggesting the fault lay not with Romania’s abattoirs but with middlemen traders further along the supply chain....
...The latter was supplier from an abattoir and butcher located in Romania.” He said a key issue was whether Spanghero “knew that it was buying horsemeat or if it was deceived”....
...That is as true from dinner tables in London or New York back to Romania, where Sorin Minea, head of the local food industry association and himself in the meat processing trade, attributes the horsemeat...
...The most recent case, the details of which are still emerging, appears to be even more convoluted, with horse meat from a Romanian abattoir being sold to a French supplier by way of a Cypriot trader, and...
...The latter was supplied from an abattoir and butcher located in Romania. Additional reporting by Neil Buckley, Helen Warrell and Hannah Kuchler in London...
...“We can see it comes from abattoirs in Romania which slaughter and butcher both beef and horsemeat,” he said....
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