A spokesman for the company told the BBC that Nestle had identified a problem with a supplier from Germany.

A statement on the Nestle website identified the supplier as HJ Schypke, a sub-contractor of JBS Toledo, a major meat processing company based in Belgium.

"There is no food safety issue, but the mislabeling of products means they fail to meet the very high standards consumers expect from us," the statement said.

In addition to removing the three affected products from sale, Nestle would be "enhancing our existing comprehensive quality assurance program by adding new tests on beef for horse DNA prior to production in Europe", it added.

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the news that the world's biggest food producer is now having to withdraw some foods, shows the problem is far wider than previously thought and, critics say, how dangerously unregulated the food industry has become.

The widening scandal over mislabeled horsemeat has affected at least 12 European countries, including Switzerland, where the retailer Co-op - famous for its broad range of organic, locally-sourced food - was on Monday forced to remove nine different products from its shelves.

Last Wednesday, the company said it had found horsemeat in its own-brand frozen lasagne produced by the Comigel food processing company in France.

Co-op now faces possible charges of negligence from the Swiss authorities.

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