The quarantined meat has now been moved from Freeza Meats to an independent cold store.
Freeza Meat said none of the meat had got into the food chain.
BBC: Asda withdraws frozen burger range supplied by NI company
Freeza Meats said none of the meat had got into the food chain.
Elements of a consignment of meat at Newry firm Freeza Meats was last week found to contain about 80% horsemeat.
Freeza Meats of Newry was storing the meat for a company in the Irish Republic after declining to buy it.
Meanwhile, supermarket chain Asda has withdrawn four frozen burger products supplied by Northern Ireland company Freeza Meats as a precaution.
Freeza Meats said it had been storing the meat for a third party and that none had entered the food chain.
The supermarket chain, Asda, has withdrawn four frozen burger products supplied by Northern Ireland company, Freeza Meats, as a precaution, in the wake of the horsemeat controversy.
BBC: Asda withdraws frozen burger range supplied by NI company
On Wednesday, supermarket chain, Asda, withdrew four frozen burger products supplied by Northern Ireland company, Freeza Meats, as a precaution, in the wake of the horsemeat controversy.
Labels apparently belonging to the company called Food Service near Warsaw were found on 12 pallets of frozen meat that ended up at Freeza Meats in Newry.
Asda has withdrawn products supplied by Newry-based Freeza Meats which was storing meat found to contain a high proportion of horse DNA. Two samples were found to contain 80% horsemeat.
Two days after the Freeza Meats horsemeat discovery, the FSA said tests on packs of Findus beef lasagne in Great Britain revealed that some of the products contained up to 100% horsemeat.
Twenty-four hours later, a consignment of beef in a County Down cold store tested positive for horse DNA. The samples taken from Freeza Meat in Newry were found to be about 80% horsemeat.
The Newry firm, Freeza Meat said it was storing the consignment at the request of a company in the Republic of Ireland and added that none of the meat had got into the food chain.
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