Fresh market share figures for the UK grocery sector show strong gains for discounters Aldi and Lidl as consumer budgets are squeezed by inflation. Aldi and Lidl saw sales rise by 28% and 10% respectively in the 12 weeks to 20 January, ...
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Trading Standards officials have discovered poultry, beef and veal in products that were being sold as lamb kebabs. When is a 'lamb' kebab not a lamb kebab? When it contains poultry, beef and veal, said Trading Standards West Sussex ...
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Filler ingredient from Poland is the source of horse DNA found in beef burgers on sale in the UK and Ireland, according to Irish agriculture officials. Fresh tests on the suspected Polish ingredient have shown up to 20% horse DNA content ...
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The Irish government has declared a “major breakthrough” in the investigation into the horse meat DNA found in value burgers as “conclusive test results” link the source to an ingredient from a Polish supplier. ...
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Irish food authorities have announced that a Polish company is responsible for the supplying horse meat for burgers, a scandal which forced Irish and UK supermarkets to recall nearly 10 million beef burgers earlier this month. The latest ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency has admitted that it found traces of a cancer-causing drug in horse meat exported to Europe in 2012, but there is no link to the recent cases of horse DNA in burgers. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said today ...
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Doubts have been raised about the validity of the DNA analysis that detected horse meat in burgers at Irish beef processing plants, as the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) refuses to release the scientific report of the findings. ...
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No traces of horse DNA were found in the second round of tests at Liffey Meats facility in Co. Cavan, Ireland, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The tests were conducted by the FSAI after an investigation conducted ...
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News that Flowers Food has emerged as the "stalking horse" bidder for various Hostess Brands bread brands in the US caught our attention this week. Meanwhile, an entirely different kind of horse got tongues wagging on this side of the pond ...
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The ABP Food Group claims to have found the source of the horse meat in the burgers produced at its Silvercrest Foods facility in Ireland and has halted production at the site in County Monaghan. Tesco published full-page apologies to its ...
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ABP Food has suspended production at its Silvercrest plant in County Monaghan, Ireland, in response to a study which found that the company’s frozen burgers contained horse meat. Earlier this week, the Food Safety Authority of ...
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has said it will consider taking legal action over the discovery of horse DNA in some beef burgers on sale in several retailers in the UK and Ireland. The UK's food safety watchdog is urgently investigating ...
Tesco has recalled some ranges of burgers in Ireland and the UK after food safety officials reported finding traces of horse meat in samples on sale in its stores, as well as in other retailers' outlets. Horse meat DNA was present in ten ...
Horsemeat has been found in some of the beef burgers that were sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). This finding comes after the agency conducted a study examining the authenticity ...
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