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Horse meat in ready meals sold in Lidl Sweden as Nestle also join the horse meat chorus

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
German food chain Lidl which has been struggling to get a strong hold in the Swedish retail sector has been hit by the horse meat scandal and it remains to see how the Swedish consumers will react. Also Nestle which has bragged that it was not affected by the horse meat dance tune has also join chorus

It emerged that traces of horsemeat has been discovered in two of the ready meal dishes that are sold in store chain. This has forced Lidl in Sweden to withdrawn a German-made goulash brand Premium, which proved to contain horsemeat. Even a pasta dish in the bag, Combino Penne Bolognese, has been withdrawn for it is found to contain traces of horse.

"We are very shaken. These are the first products that we discovered in our catalogue and we are as appalled as the rest of the industry," says Lidl press officer Caroline Forsshell to Swedish television news.

"We'll look at all our products containing beef in order to ensure that it does not contain horse meat, and sent them to Germany for testing. We are still awaiting test results on some products," says Caroline Forsshell.

A larger analysis was done during the day, which confirmed that meat dishes contained horse meat. The products have been available in stores around the country.
"Customers who purchased the products are welcome to return the product to the store to get their money back. We will notify our customers about this through the website," says Forsshell.

Lidl has not yet decided how to proceed in the case against their supplier.
Yesterday the British Channel 4 TV show a documentary in which unhealthy horses were being rounded up and sold in Ireland to be killed and passed into meat even now that the scandal in out. Criminals will stop at nothing to respect the laws as governments continue to whine and claim to be tough.

Then today it has emerged that Swiss-based Nestle, the world's biggest food company which just last week said products under its labels were not affected by the escalating horsemeat scandal, said it had informed the authorities, it has recalled its beef pasta meals from shelves in Italy and Spain after tests revealed traces of horse DNA above 1 per cent.
By Scancomark.com Team

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