"It might contain traces of horsemeat, but we don't know for certain at the moment if this is the case, " said Esther Filon, a spokeswoman for the Dutch food authority.
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The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) will examine amendments to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to ensure that imported beef and beef products were free from BSE.
Barcelona is a bon vivant's dream, and with over 10, 000 restaurants, it's the only region outside France to have been given the prestigious distinction of "Gourmande city" by French food authority Le Guide des Gourmands.
Alan Reilly, the chief executive of the Irish food authority, said there was a "plausible explanation" for the pig meat finding its way into the burgers, since meat from different animals is processed at the same plants.
The European Food Safety Authority started reviewing food health claims in 2006 and has rejected 80% of more than 900 proposed claims to date.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland said that it was issuing a food alert for Ireland about the burgers and would also notify the European Commission.
Some critics were quick to dismiss the new food safety authority, because the group is designed to advise, but will not be able to regulate food production and handling.
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Neonicotinoids were recently branded an 'unacceptable' danger to bees by the EU Food Safety Authority.
Mr McAdam said that the Irish Food Safety Authority visited him on Friday 1 February.
Last week the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) initiated a public consultation on its draft guidance.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland said Friday that the affected Findus lasagna had also been sold in Ireland.
Last week the European Food Safety Authority warned that neonicotinoid pesticides should not be used on crops attractive to honey bees.
"That is why the Republic of Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, the minister, the Garda are involved, " he said.
The European Food Safety Authority has rejected 80% of more than 900 proposed claims over the past several years because they are lacking strong evidence.
Ms Blythman said the FSA compared very unfavourably to the Food Standards Authority Ireland (FSAI), which she said was "more pro-active" and unearthed the horsemeat contamination in the first place.
Meanwhile, the Irish Department of Agriculture and the Food Standards Authority of Ireland (FSAI) are currently working to develop testing protocols for DNA testing at meat processors in the Republic.
Officials from the Republic of Ireland's food safety authority (FSAI) confirmed the meat had come from Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, in Ireland, and the Dalepak Hambleton processing plant in Yorkshire.
In 2010, the European Food Safety Authority published a report outlining analysis of 612 rice samples from the EU, finding average levels of just a few tens of parts per billion.
But a spokesman for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that while the organisation had concluded that fish could feel pain, in the EU, decapods were not classified as sentient species.
Tests were carried out by food firm 3663 after McColgan's name appeared on a report by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) following an investigation which discovered horsemeat in some frozen burgers.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the contaminated meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the contaminated meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak plant in North Yorkshire.
One supplier, meat processor Silvercrest, based in County Monaghan, Ireland, lost supply contracts with Tesco, Aldi and Co-operative supermarkets after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) found horse and pig DNA in burgers it supplied.
On the evening on 15 January, the Republic's Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) announced the results of DNA tests it carried out on a number of beef products on sale in a number of supermarkets.
The science based view of this issue took a sharp turn in January when the European Food Safety Authority issued three studies raising questions about the potential role of neonics in this latest wave of bee deaths.
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The study was publicized widely throughout the world, but it was denounced by the European Union Food Safety Authority, rejected in a rare joint statement by the six French national scientific academies, and ridiculed by scores of scientists.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), which is conducting similar inquiries, said the meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in North Yorkshire.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published their opinion on a French study that found severe impacts on the health of rats fed with genetically engineered maize or exposed to a low dosage of herbicides.
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That's because they typically require studies that meet a long list of criteria, says Wolfgang Dekant, a toxicologist at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany and a member of a panel that reviewed BPA research a few years ago for the European Food Safety Authority.
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