Authorities say the company supplied meat to another French company, Comigel SAS, which made beef-labeled frozen lasagna ready meals for a frozen-food maker that were found to contain horse meat.
Retailers in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden pulled millions of lasagna and other processed beef products off the shelves as the alarm was raised over the Findus lasagnas.
European Union officials were meeting Monday to discuss tougher food labeling rules after the discovery of horse meat in a range of frozen supermarket meals such as burgers and lasagna that were supposed to contain beef or pork.