British environment minister David Heath has told the House of Commons that a drug used to treat horses may have entered the food chain in France, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Eight horses from British slaughterhouses tested positive for phenylbutazone, a painkiller used on animals, according to the AP, and three of those may have entered the food chain.
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