Operations at Ireland-based B&F Meats have been suspended after the regulators from Irish Department of Agriculture found that the company shipped horsemeat, which was labeled as beef, to the Czech Republic.
The regulators stated that the company supplied the horsemeat from its deboning facility in County Tipperary to one customer in the Czech Republic through a UK-based trader.
Irish agriculture minister Simon Coveney said that all the operations at the facility have been suspended with immediate effect.
B&F Meats is a slaughterhouse in the County Tipperary town of Carrick-on-Suir in Ireland. The company has been licensed to slaughter cows as well as horses.
Meanwhile, the European Union agriculture ministers are set to hold talks in Brussels in order to take up certain measures to limit the ongoing meat labeling scandal in the continent.
