Tesco has admitted an own-label spaghetti bolognese in the UK contained horse DNA. The UK's largest retailer announced this evening the product, sold under its cut-price Everyday Value own label, contained over 60% horse DNA in some ...
UK police have raided two meat firms as part of an investigation into how beef products containing horse meat have been sold. The UK Food Standards Agency issued a statement yesterday evening (12 February) to say its officials and police ...
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More than a third of shoppers are less likely to buy processed meat products after the horse meat scandal, according to a survey of 6,000 consumers by the research group GMI on behalf of Kantar. Value ranges are expected to suffer from ...
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Irish catering supplier Rangelands Foods is recalling more than 9000 frozen burgers as they contain significant levels of horse meat, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). This move comes after testing conducted by ...
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European food researchers from 27 member EU states are set to meet in Brussels, Belgium, to establish plans to address the horsemeat mislabeling scandal. The EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain will outline plans to implement ...
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UK-based supermarket chain Tesco has announced that it has found horse meat in some Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese. The horse meat was identified after the company carried out a number of tests following the product's withdrawal from ...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has suspended operations at two meat processing facilities in the UK over claims that both the firms have sold horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers. The FSA raided both the premises, Peter Boddy ...
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Given the recent news that a sample of Tesco Everyday Value Beef burgers contained 29% horse meat, it’s interesting to see that McDonald’s has unveiled new packaging designs which it says are the latest step in their ...
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 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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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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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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A 4,000-year-old Chinese folk art rarely practiced today, dough figurine is also known as mianhua or miansu in Chinese. The man who may have created the craft, Zhuge Liang, was military strategist of the state of Shu in the Three ...
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