In addition to removing the three affected products from sale, Nestle would be "enhancing ourexisting comprehensive quality assurance programme by adding new tests on beef for horse DNA prior to production in Europe", it added.
"We plan to continue to increase and accelerate capital spending to develop new products in new and existing segments... grow our manufacturing footprint in China and explore manufacturing opportunities in other markets, " it said.
As part of this process we intend to identify and reserve those patents that we believe are core to existingproducts and future roadmaps and underpin the value proposition we bring to our OEM and channel partners.