BRUSSELS SAYS NEARLY 5% OF EU BEEF CONTAMINATED WITH HORSEMEAT
April 1st, 2013
THE CONTINUING threat posed by the European Union’s (EU) horsemeat labelling scandal has been made clear by a European Commission survey whose results were released yesterday (Tuesday). They show that 4.66% products in a sample of 4,144 beef products tested positive for horse meat. The national breakdown of statistics showed that France had the worst problem – with 47 out of 353 beef products including horsemeat. Denmark, with nine out of 99 also had an above average number of beef products containing horsemeat. No horsemeat was detected in any sampled ...
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