Resources Minister George Pullicino said meat from racehorses cannot be sold for human consumption due to medicinal treatments they might have been given.

Since Malta had no plant to process horsemeat for pet food, the horse carcasses were incinerated.

Mr Pullicino was answering a parliamentary question by Labour MP Anthony Agius Decelis.

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