Within hours of the International Union of Science and Technology’s World Congress ending in Dublin last week, news broke of yet another UK horse meat scandal.

Three men — two Brits and a Dane — are accused of conspiring to sell horse meat as beef.

The beef-that’s-actually-horse scandal first exploded in Europe in early 2013, when horse DNA was found in frozen burgers in several British and Irish supermarkets, shortly after our own donkey meat scandal.

Almost 70% of a sample of 139 processed meat products bought from butcheries across South Africa were found in DNA tests to contain undeclared species including, most shockingly, donkey, in one KwaZulu-Natal case.

To read the article titled, “Fighting food fraud — the manipulation, substitution or mislabelling of food” click here.