Horsemeat found in more products from Birds Eye, Brakes, Taco Bell and IKEA
The latest batch of test results from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed five more beef products contaminated with horsemeat.
The products, from the companies Birds Eye, Brakes and Taco Bell, are:
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- Birds Eye - Traditional Spaghetti Bolognese
- Birds Eye - Beef Lasagne
- Brakes - Spicy minced beef skewer
- Brakes/Creative Foods - Lasagne
- Taco Bell - Ground beef
Brakes has already withdrawn other beef products, including steak and kidney pie, beef and onion pie, steak and kidney suet pudding and beef Italian meatballs, as a precautionary measure. The company issued a statement saying "Brakes will continue to work tirelessly with and alongside the industry on investigating and resolving this issue. We are determined to do everything within our control to protect our customers from this issue in the future."
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A Taco Bell spokesman said in response to the findings "We immediately withdrew ground beef from sale in our restaurants, discontinued purchase of that meat, and contacted the Food Standards Agency with this information."
Last week IKEA withdrew meatballs and this week found "indications of horse DNA" in its wiener sausages in results outside of the FSA testing programme. These products have since been removed from sale in the UK.
The FSA has now received 5430 test results, including the 1797 that have arrived this week. 99% of the test results have so far returned as negative for horsemeat, at the 1% threshold limit.
9 Comments
by NakedWithGoat
Sunday, March 03 2013, 7:38PM
“I've turned vegetarian. But then I found traces of carrot in my sweet corn.”
by CharlieDodd
Sunday, March 03 2013, 4:00PM
“SCIENTIST-"Here are the results of DNA tests on that sausage, it won the 3:30 at Haydock Park last month"”
by firkinjeffery
Sunday, March 03 2013, 2:13PM
“It aint these companies that sold me, the consumer, these products.
The responsibility lies solely with the Retailer.
How silent they have been.
Heard the Guvna of tesco on tv the other day, "We will buy more British meat"
i would suggest only if they can Screw the supplier down the the "Bone" hence the sole reason we have the issue and food labels that LIE! we have now...
F”
by frankdrake
Sunday, March 03 2013, 1:42PM
“Brakes, by the way, supply the "fresh" ? food you get in pubs that buy the food in frozen.
**** pubs that is...”
by newjanner
Sunday, March 03 2013, 10:15AM
“completely agree carolwilson. Its not the content but the deception i find ditasteful (excuse the pun)”
by wilsoncarol
Sunday, March 03 2013, 6:49AM
“Horse meat, cat meat, dog meat, vole meat, whatever the animal, it's all good nutritious food.
The only beef (pun intended) I have with the whole affair is the under hand way this meat has got into the food chain.
The general public are not idiots, we can make our own choices.
The food manufacturers must give the consumer all the facts regarding the food content & allow us to make our own decisions.”
by newjanner
Saturday, March 02 2013, 10:06PM
“withdrawal is a sop to the masses. The only way to give there companies what they deserve is to boycott their products forever and make them go out of business. Sorry for the people who work there but its the only way to make a stand”
by CharlieDodd
Saturday, March 02 2013, 8:47PM
“And that FSA logo looks like Bechers Brook”
by CharlieDodd
Saturday, March 02 2013, 6:48PM
“With two furlongs to go it's Birds Eye ahead with Brakes making ground on the stand side, challenged by Taco Bell and IKEA..”