A federally funded study has found that 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label.
The CFIA reached out to Hanner for the study after the European horse meat scandal in 2013, where food labelled as beef was found to have horse meat — in some cases beef was completely substituted by horse meat.
Seven of 27 beef sausages examined in the study contained pork.
One of 38 supposedly pure pork sausages contained horse meat.
Of 20 chicken sausages, four also contained turkey and one also had beef.
Five of the 15 turkey sausages studied contained no turkey at all — they were entirely chicken.
"[The tools] can actually differentiate properly between different meats, it can give us a sense of what's in there," Dimitri said. »
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