date:Apr 17, 2013
to try to identify those responsible for passing off illegally labeled horsemeat as beef.
Last week, authorities in the Netherlands said about 50 million kilos of beef distributed by two Dutch wholesalers over a period of two years may have contained horsemeat, fuelling suspicions that the country could be one of the possible origins of the scandal.
It's probably true that the Netherlands is the source of some of the fraud, the senior EU source said.