He warned the stores involved, saying: 'Ultimately retailers have to be responsible for what it is they sell and where it comes from.'
The alert was first raised by Irish food watchdogs earlier this week after horse DNA was found in burgers sold through Tesco, Iceland, Aldi, Lidl and Dunnes in Ireland.
It subsequently emerged that burgers from the same batches were sold in the British outlets of both Tesco and Iceland. The beef content in one Everyday Value burger sold by Tesco was actually 29 percent horse meat.
The tests were carried out in November but the results were not released until they had been checked by experts in Germany. It is likely that many thousands of the burgers contaminated with horse meat have been eaten by families.
(Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)
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(Agencies)
昨日有报道称,英国近日曝出的牛肉汉堡掺马肉丑闻事件,导致上千万牛肉汉堡被召回。
随着公众对此问题的反感情绪不断升级,有越来越多的超市卷入争端,汉堡王连锁快餐店也牵涉其中。
英国大型连锁超市Sainsbury’s、Asda 和Co-op已经决定采取防范措施,将数千包冷冻汉堡下架。
这三家公司之所以采取这一行动,是因为这些产品均来自于一家据称供应掺杂马肉的汉堡的爱尔兰食品巨头。
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