Norwegian sausage contained animal foot. Family swears never to eat hot dogs again
Posted by African Press International on February 16, 2007
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*”Eight-year Maiken Kroghdal got a nasty shock that has put her family off eating hot dogs for life.
The animal foot that the Kroghdal’s pulled out of Maiken’s hot dog.
PHOTO: Private
“Maiken had nearly finished her hot dog when she saw something gray in the meat she showed me. We dug out this gray thing that was surrounded by meat. It turned out to be a foot with a claw, probably a rat foot since it was about a centimeter (0.4 inch) long,” Maiken’s father, Rolf Kroghdal told Aftenposten.no.
The sausage was part of their Wednesday dinner, and purchased at a local Trondheim supermarket. The producer of the hot dog is Nortura, formerly known as Gilde, Norway’s leading meat product maker and the company shaken by a series of scandals last year, including a wave of E. coli poisonings and animal excrement found in products.
But Nortura does not believe this can be their fault.
“It is unlikely that the foot of an animal can be in a sausage because the sausage is ground to a pulp. So it is, practically speaking, impossible,” Nortura communications director Nina Sundqvist told newspaper Adresseavisen’s web site.
Nortura is skeptical enough about the possibility to report the find to police in order to try and achieve a full investigation.
Kroghdal has no doubt that the claw must have come into the hot dog during production.
“It is absolutely certain that the foot was in the middle of the hot dog. In the picture you can see the meat remains on the foot,” Kroghdal said.
He added that the family will never eat hot dogs for dinner again.
“This is one of the most nauseating things I have ever experienced. We will never eat ground meat again,” he said.”*
By Solrun Dregelid and Jonathan Tisdall
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