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.
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.
But minced horse and minced beef look very similar, says Bedington.
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.
Investigations have begun in Poland to find out how beef and horse products were mixed.
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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.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said it was "completely unacceptable" that consumers were being sold food that contained horse in place of beef.
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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.
In addition to removing the three affected products from sale, Nestle would be "enhancing our existing comprehensive quality assurance programme by adding new tests on beef for horse DNA prior to production in Europe", it added.
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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.
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.
The price of horse meat can be far less than beef, which could mean big profits for companies that can disguise horse meat.
To the contemporary eye, that may make it sound as if horse meat is healthier than beef.
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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.
The FSA has said members of the public would be asked if they found low levels - or "trace contamination" - of horse and other species in beef products acceptable.
On Wednesday, the FSA said members of the public were to be asked if they find low levels - or "trace contamination" - of horse and other species in beef products acceptable.
Owen Paterson said he was "pleased" with the plans, adding it was "wrong" consumers had bought beef products that contained horse.
While horse meat is as palatable as beef there has been concern that a veterinary drug given to horses that can be dangerous to humans.
Spanish authorities, meanwhile, announced that traces of horse meat were found in a beef cannelloni product by one of the brands of Nestle, a Switzerland-based food giant.
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.
Preliminary tests have found six new beef products that may contain horse DNA, the Food Standards Agency says.
Bulgaria, Portugal and Spain on Thursday became the latest countries to detect horse meat in food products labeled as beef in the widening European food scandal.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will report after asking retailers and suppliers for "meaningful results" from tests to detect the presence of horse meat in processed meals labelled as beef.
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