Turns out a lot of people in Europe have been unknowingly eating horsemeat, and they're not happy about it.
September 17th, 2012 - Suspicious Beef Labels Are Discovered
Source: irishnews.com
Environmental health officers in Ireland discover imported beef from Poland with fraudulent labels at a Freeza Meats cold storage. According to UK food industry news site The Grocer:
"This audit highlighted labeling and traceability issues with the Polish product, and Freeza said it has since been legally required to detain the product under quarantine as it awaited further instructions from local environmental health officers."
November 7th to 30th, 2012 - Ireland's Food Safety Authority Finds Horsemeat-Tainted Beef In Major Grocery Stores
Source: northernsound.ie
Ireland's Food Safety Authority begins testing beef products wondering if an increase in horse slaughtering in the country was affecting the suspiciously low cost of beef production.
Ireland ordered the fresh testing of Silvercrest burgers hours after the country's Food Safety Authority published test results Tuesday of 27 brands of beef burgers on sale in November and December at Irish supermarkets.
Ireland's FSA finds horsemeat in 10 out of the 27 brands they take samples of. Most shockingly, British supermarket giant Tesco was found to contain 29 percent horsemeat.
