date:Oct 11, 2013
1%. A total of 32,404 beef results tested for horse meat/DNA have been submitted by industry to the FSA since 15 February. Of these, 47 were positive.
An extensive programme of testing by UK industry and local authorities started in February, at the request of the FSA. These tests were carried out to check that beef products on sale or supplied into the UK food chain were accurately labelled and did not contain horse meat/DNA, following the discovery of horse meat being used as beef in a range