He then moved to the State Veterinary Service, working in Itchen Abbas and Taunton and eventually at the SVS HQ at Tolworth, in Surrey.

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Inspectors working for Czech food regulator SVS discovered the tainted products at the IKEA store in the city of Brno, 200 kilometers east of Prague.

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The inflation data triggered heavy buying in bank shares and most blue chips in other sectors, said Harish Vasudevan, an equity strategist at local brokerage SVS Securities.

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Czech food regulator SVS said on Monday it had found undisclosed amounts of the animal in one specific batch of meatballs during a routine check late last week.

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