Processed Meat in Sweden

Hotdogs with Thin Skin

 

Contents

● Swedish pork and beef (57%)

● Salt,

● Connective tissue from pig

● Water

● Potato flour

● Onions,

● Spices

● Yeast extract,

● Spice extracts,

● Glucose,

● Sugar,

● Flavor,

● Antioxidants E326: e300: E330,

● Preservative E261: e250,

● Smoke flavoring. fat 21%

● Glucose (dextrose):

● Antioxidants E326:

● e300: Ascorbic acid

● E330: Mold (Black Mold)

● Preservative E261:

● E250: Sodium nitrite (Salt)

Anton, Matilda E, Emelie

 

 

Product Concerns and Information

The packaging is made of plastic and can only be used once, which is bad for the environment. If you go to a waste separation department, another soft plastic packaging could be used so that it can be melted to make new plastic of it. Scan is a Swedish company that process meat and they have 100% Swedish meat so it’s local production. Almost everything else than the meat comes from import.The packaging contains 960-gram sausage. Scans sausage with thin skin is declared.You could get a job at Scans meat factory if you have the right education and they are searching for someone to hire. Scan has not put out any official numbers of their employee's wages.Scan are using some natural resources: pork and beef meat, spices, water, potato flour, salt, connective tissue from pigs, onions, and sugar.Scan transports their meat by truck and ferry

Manufacturing Process

It is interesting how sausages are made, they mix, meat, flavour spices and other ingredients to get the perfect mix, to get the tastiest sausage. Many find it kind of nasty when they see how a sausage is made, but I had seen it before, so I was not so surprised. This video was not thorough, there are more videos out on the internet that is really nasty. The worst videos out there(in our opinion) is when they mistreat animals, but in this video, they did not show how they treated the animals, but hopefully, they were treated well. The process will differentiate a little between different from which country the sausage is made in, which company who makes it, what budget it has, but the basic is pretty equal between factory made sausage. I believe that most of the Swedish sausage companies treat the animals well, but am not sure every company does it.

 

By Anton Laine, Emelie Utterström, Matilda Edvinsson

 

 

WCRD 2016: Antibiotic Resistance Podcast

Our students took a critical look at the information presented by Consumer's International about the harm posed by the antibiotics used in the fast-food industry.A letter was sent to two of the fast-food chains in Sweden, Frasses and Sibylla, asking if the restaurants used antibiotics found in human medicine. After receiving a response, the students chose to focus on one of the papers provided by Consumers International. Each student then shared this new information with her classmates in the form of a podcast.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwryhEF9iIhQN0pvSW5FWUwzQWs

Below is an example of one of the letters:

Hey!

We are four high school students who are currently working on an international project called the Erasmus + project. Our theme is about how animals get antibiotics that are for people who then end up in the meat we eat and affect our health.To be able to analyze and work on this we need your help.We would like to know more about Frasse's policy on the use of antibiotics in meat sold in your restaurant's, if a policy is available, ie? What do you think of the fast-food chain's responsibility to sell only antibiotic-free meat? Is this something you work to achieve, and how do you work to achieve this?We would be very happy for answers, that would greatly facilitate our work.

Sincerely

Elisabeth Svanberg, Ida Lantto, Emma Fyrén & Tilda Eriksson

Economic Program, Välkommaskolan Gällivare

 

Hello Emma,

It has been forbidden for several years to provide animal antibiotics for prevention within the EU.Together with our meat supplier, we require suppliers to use antibiotics for medical purposes only.All animals slaughtered have a certificate that they are free of antibiotics, ie they have not received antibiotics before slaughter and if they have been treated, that they do not go to slaughter before the time of the antibiotic has expired, ie the time it takes for antibiotics in the body to disappear.All medicines that are used and are veterinary prescribed are registered at the individual level at the breeder, which means that consumption is well understood.So the short and simple answer is then No, our meat does not contain antibiotics.

Hope this will help you in your project and wish you a good day.

Sincerely

Pernilla Näslund