date:Apr 17, 2013
h and Consumers. In the coming months, the commission will propose to strengthen the controls along the food chain in line with lessons learned.
France had the most positive tests for illegal horse meat labeled as beef than any other EU Member State. The official DNA tests showed that of 353 tests conducted in France, 47 tested positive for horse DNA, a rate of 13 percent. In Greece, 288 samples were tested with 36 positive results, a rate of 12.5 percent.
In February French authorities accu