On Tuesday 5 February, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) confirmed that a consignment of frozen meat in a cold store in County Down, contained about 80% horsemeat.
After WWII many burger joints closed down and those that remained turned to frozen meat as a more cost effective option, according to Motz.
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An initial investigation by French officials revealed that French firm Poujol bought the frozen meat from a Cypriot trader, France's Junior Minister for Consumer Goods, Benoit Hamon, said in a statement on Sunday.
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.
Thereafter, preparing for dinner consists of taking out a bag of frozen marinade and dropping some meat into it.
Landel, then general manager for eastern Africa at Sodexho Alliance, hopped on a plane to Nairobi, where he loaded up on a week's supply of frozen meat and fish.
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.
"As a precaution we have withdrawn four frozen burger products produced by a company in Northern Ireland after a separate batch of meat in another part of their premises was found by the Food Standards Agency to contain horse DNA, " it said.
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German supermarket chain Real confirmed Wednesday that samples of a frozen beef lasagna had tested positive for horse meat.
In Bulgaria, the government said that DNA tests conducted in Germany had found imported frozen dishes being sold in a supermarket chain to be as high as 80 percent horse meat.
She also said that two weeks ago Ikea tested a range of frozen food products, including meatballs, and found no traces of horse meat.
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