Blood in a ditch costs meat company more than £27,000

Dawn Meats (UK) Ltd has been fined a total of £25,000 after abattoir effluent containing blood leaked into a ditch. The court heard that levels of pollution as high and higher than crude sewage were found in the ditch on two separate occasions and the water was running red. Oxygen levels in the water were seriously low and ammonia levels high.

In February 2004, Environment Agency officers were notified that there was discharge of blood into the ditch, which runs along the front of the Dawn ... (332 more words)

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