Investigators from the French Agriculture Ministry identified horse meat labeled as beef from French meat-processing company Spanghero SAS. The ministry suspended Spanghero's activities last Thursday but authorized it to resume some of its activities on Monday.
This latest incident comes just over a week after inspectors found horse DNA in meat labelled as beef in three Polish meat-processing plants, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.
The scandal over horse meat disguised as more expensive beef began in Ireland last month, when authorities found horse meat in some products labeled as beef burgers sold in some supermarkets, but it has since swept across Europe.
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Spanghero was the first company to label the meat as beef, the minister said, adding that 750 tons of horse meat were involved over a period of at least six months.
Irish government officials and an Irish meat company have blamed the contamination of beef patties with horsemeat on meat imported from Poland.
It's the latest twist in a Europe-wide crisis over rogue horse meat in beef products.
"It's totally unacceptable if any business in the UK is defrauding the public by passing off horse meat as beef, " he said.
The Czech authority also announced Monday that it found horse meat in beef burgers imported from Poland during random tests of food products.
According to media reports, Draap's director was convicted by a Breda court in January 2012 in relation to the mislabeling of horse meat as beef.
European officials are trying to determine whether the mislabeling can be traced back to one scheme or whether passing horse meat as beef is a widespread practice.
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BSE-infected cows through beef-eating and meat-packing, has been suggested.
Pink slime occurs when sub-par beef scraps and connective tissue are mixed with ammonia to turn formerly inedible meat into edible ground beef.
The price of horse meat can be far less than beef, which could mean big profits for companies that can disguise horse meat.
Schools, hospitals, chain and fast-food restaurants, have all been serving horse meat in their beef products without realizing it.
Irish police have launched an investigation into the recent discovery of horse meat at a beef processing factory in the Republic.
The group also says to choose boneless cuts of meat and ground beef only if it has been ground in the store.
The French processing company that supplied Findus sold meat labelled as beef despite knowing it could have been horsemeat, the French government has said.
The scandal started in Ireland last month, when authorities there found horse meat in some beef burgers sold in large U.K. supermarket chains, but it has now swept across Europe.
Instead of perfectly preserved beef, they found putrid meat so rotten that the stone floors needed to be coated with chloride of lime to mask the stench, according to an account in the Illustrated London News.
Horse meat sold as beef in Europe.
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"We will look (starting Monday) at who their clients are and, as a consequence, we will see what products will have to be taken off the market because there is a reasonable suspicion that these products are composed of horse meat and not beef, " said France's junior minister for the social economy, Benoit Hamon.
Meanwhile, some countries continue to take unilateral action against each other's beef exports: Austria, Germany and Italy have banned French meat, and the French continue to block British beef.
To the contemporary eye, that may make it sound as if horse meat is healthier than beef.
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Just 30 miles from the Michigan border, the lakeside town will showcase multitudes of meat during its annual Beef-a-Rama festival.
The analysis showed no meat, other than beef, had been sent to Ireland.
Spanghero should have known that the meat it labeled as beef was actually horse, French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon has said.
It said it was taking the action after the traces of horse meat were found in beef bought from a supplier in central Spain.
French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said Thursday that the French firm Spanghero should have known that the meat it labeled as beef was actually horse.
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