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Police arrested 21 people in raids on the horsemeat industry across southern France this morning on suspicion that horses used to develop medicines were sold fraudulently for food, police and industry officials said.
Marseille public prosecutor Brice Robin said about 200 horses unfit for human consumption had been given false veterinary certificates and slaughtered for meat by an organised ring, based in the southern town of Narbonne, involving cattle traders, vets and butchers.
"There is absolutely no evidence that these animals were toxic or posed a threat to public health," he told a news conference.
A spokesman for pharmaceutical company Sanofi said some of the horses had been used to incubate antibodies to manufacture serums for everything from rabies to snake bites, and while in good health were certified as fit for human consumption.
Spokesman Alain Bernal of the Sanofi Pasteur vaccine division said the firm was co-operating with investigators but did not know how long the fraud had been going on.
"Horses are a factory of antibodies," he said.
Comment: "Take the religion out or not compete." The message seems pretty clear, even to a 4th or 5th grader.