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Asda says finds horse drug in corned beef

April 9, 2013 15:00
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket chain Asda said on Tuesday very low levels of the horse pain-killing drug phenylbutazone, also known as bute, had been found in horsemeat discovered in tins of corned beef in the first such case in Britain. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the level of the drug, which is banned from entering the human food chain, posed a low risk to human health, as results showed it contained 4 parts per billion.

Sweden seeks criminal probe into horsemeat case

April 8, 2013 14:32
Sweden's food safety regulator said Monday it had asked the country's prosecutors to investigate a company believed to have labelled Polish horsemeat as Swedish beef tenderloin. "We can't say with certainty where this meat comes from because the documentation is so inadequate," Karin Cerenius of the National Food Agency's control unit told AFP. The food security watchdog had been contacted by a consumer who was concerned over the size and colour of a beef steak she had bought.

Ikea pulls elk lasagne after pork found

April 6, 2013 07:45
Swedish furniture giant Ikea said Saturday it had stopped selling its frozen elk lasagne after a batch was found to contain traces of pork. The company withdrew 17,600 lasagnes from sale and began performing its own tests after a Belgian laboratory said the minced elk meat contained just over one percent pork. "We were contacted by Belgian authorities on March 22 and we acted immediately," company spokeswoman Josefin Thorell said.

Tesco withdraws Czech salami containing horsemeat

March 20, 2013 14:30
PRAGUE (Reuters) - British food giant Tesco has withdrawn from its Czech stores a locally made salami that tests showed contained horsemeat, a spokesman for the retailer said on Wednesday. The Herkules salami, made by local food processor Krahulik Masozavod Krahulci, contained around 5 percent of undeclared horsemeat DNA and was withdrawn from all Tesco shelves in the central European country, spokesman Jiri Marecek said in a press release.

Banned lamb mince found at French 'horsemeat' factory

March 19, 2013 10:01
French authorities Tuesday said they had found 57 tonnes of minced lamb that did not conform to European standards at the factory of Spanghero, the firm at the heart of the horsemeat scandal. The French company sparked a European food alert by allegedly passing off 750 tonnes of horsemeat as beef, which led to its sanitary licence being revoked. It was subsequently allowed to resume production of minced meat, sausages and ready-to-eat meals. The firm is not allowed to stock frozen meats.

Banned lamb mince found at French 'horsemeat' factory

March 19, 2013 08:17
French authorities Tuesday said they had found 57 tonnes of minced lamb that did not conform to European standards at the factory of Spanghero, the firm at the heart of the horsemeat scandal. The French company sparked a European food alert by allegedly passing off 750 tonnes of horsemeat as beef, which led to its sanitary licence being revoked. It was subsequently allowed to resume production of minced meat, sausages and ready-to-eat meals. The firm is not allowed to stock frozen meats.

France finds horsemeat in beef imported via Netherlands

March 15, 2013 15:15
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Horsemeat has been found in France in a shipment of 320 tonnes of meat labelled "pure beef" that was imported from eastern Europe via the Netherlands, a local prosecutor said on Friday. The horsemeat, found during tests in the south-eastern city of Cavaillon in meat intended for use in ready-made meals, was the latest in a scandal that has spread across Europe since equine DNA was found in beef products in Ireland in January.

Pork found in halal sausages served to London pupils

March 14, 2013 17:16
Traces of pork have been found in a sample of halal chicken sausages served to pupils in central London schools and nurseries, the local council revealed on Thursday. Pork was present in one sample which may have been supplied by contractor Chartwells to 19 schools and nurseries, Westminster City Council said in a statement. A further sample of non-halal lean mince beef supplied to 17 schools and nurseries also found pork and lamb.

Tesco finds horsemeat in frozen meatloaf, pulls product

March 12, 2013 16:45
March 12 (Reuters) - Tesco Plc, Britain's biggest grocer, said on Tuesday it withdrew its line of frozen meatloaf after it tested positive for between 2 to 5 percent horsemeat. The company said it pulled from its shelves Tesco Simply Roast Meatloaf 600g packs made between October 2012 and January 2013 at Eurostock in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. Tesco said it would complete its own investigation into tracing the source of contamination before it took a call to continue with the supplier.

Poultry checks strengthened at scandal-hit Liuhe -executive

March 11, 2013 09:46
By Lucy Hornby BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters) - Chinese poultry producer Liuhe Group Co is back to normal operations but with strengthened protocols, its controlling shareholder said, after being named for supplying chicken with excessive antibiotics to KFC. In December, state television reported that poultry suppliers to fast-food chain KFC had fed chickens drugs and hormones to accelerate growth. Chinese food safety authorities also said they had found excessive amounts of antibiotics in samples tested from 2010 and 2011.
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