The investigations come as Europe's food industry has been engulfed by a meat processing and labelling scandal after multiple processed meat products labelled as beef were revealed to contain quantities of horsemeat.
The latest scandal surrounding horsemeat in processed food could be "disastrous" for the meat processing industry, retail analysts are warning.
Mr Walker also claimed that at least one Irish meat processing company had been introducing horsemeat into the food chain.
The Findus products were prepared by French food manufacturer Comigel using meat provided by Spanghero, a meat-processing company also based in France.
In 1981, he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet food-processing facility that was converting illegally harvested whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm.
Yet this technology, which would prevent millions of cases of food poisoning and scores of resulting deaths, has not been required at meat processing plants.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
Currently, by law, the USDA needs to have inspectors in a processing facility while the food is being processed, meaning they are checking meat daily for flaws at meat plants.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the contaminated meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the contaminated meat had come from two processing plants in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak plant in North Yorkshire.
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