North Lincolnshire Tesco stores withdraw frozen meal as it is revealed to contain horsemeat

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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The Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese has been withdrawn from all Tesco stores.

This is because DNA tests have revealed 60% of the dish contains horsemeat.

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    Tesco has withdrawn Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese

It is one of several products that have been withdrawn from UK shelves because of the current scandal over horsemeat in food products in the UK and Europe.

Tim Smith, Tesco group technical director, said: "A week ago Tesco withdrew a frozen Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese product from sale. We did this as a precaution because Findus products from the same factory were reportedly at risk of containing horsemeat.

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"Since then, we have carried out a number of tests on the product and those tests identified the presence of horse DNA. Of the positive results, most are at a trace level of less than 1% but three showed significant levels of horse DNA, exceeding 60%. We have carried out further tests to ensure that there is no danger to health through the presence of potentially harmful bute. The test for bute was clear.

"The frozen Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese should contain only Irish beef from our approved suppliers. The source of the horsemeat is still under investigation by the relevant authorities. The level of contamination suggests that Comigel was not following the appropriate production process for our Tesco product and we will not take food from their facility again.   

"We are very sorry that we have let customers down. We set ourselves high standards for the food we sell and we have had two cases in recent weeks where we have not met those standards. Our DNA testing programme is underway and will give us and our customer's assurance that the product they buy is what it should be."

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    by buttercross

    Thursday, February 14 2013, 12:06AM

    “On another note I am now beginning to think the very few beef joints I have purchased from Tesco & other supermarkets was possibly horsemeat because they have all been as tough as old boots & tasteless.”

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    by buttercross

    Thursday, February 14 2013, 12:04AM

    “IF the food inspectors & other Govt Food agencies had been doing their highly paid jobs correctly none of this would have happened but as is always the case they only jump on the bandwagon once the general public are made aware of these horrendous scandals AND as usual it is the genearl public who are the ones who pay the price!!”

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    by JohnJohn2011

    Tuesday, February 12 2013, 4:57PM

    “When the BSE crisis erupted in the UK which they were probably warned about a number of years prior to the cattle been fed with infected cattle food apparently sourced from the continent, the UK citizens were initially told that their was no threat to human health, at that time some people continued to eat half cooked pink burgers from the fast food wagon outside Scene Three night club. Only later after some cattle appeared to have some sort of neurological problems did the authorities then admit that a problem with human health was a possibility. The authorities had masses of cattle killed and the infected blood soaked carcasses sent by the truck load to incinerators. The trucks were supposed to be totally washed disinfected and cleaned, however due to time constraints and lack of monitoring it is said that a lot of these trucks left the incineration plants not cleaned enough only to load up at a farm on the way back with corn or wheat products for other food chain markets that obviously wouldn't be tested for BSE. It is also said that all the relevant paperwork was correct. People should be worried about the possible GM products in the animal feed or the medication that some of these horses may have been given.
    Too many organizations with too much to loose with mates in high places for people to be told the truth, truth is no body knows what they are eating. How would most of the people know if normal battery farmed eggs were swapped for organic farmed eggs? Think of how many extra £'s profit for each box for a company if that was to happen. Probably a big Euro wide plan to put into the food chain cheaper meat to hide the true inflationary rate of food, you see the price of beef rise after this has been taken off the headlines.”

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    by tinyd

    Tuesday, February 12 2013, 3:45PM

    “who cares about a bit of shergar in their burgers?lets face it plain mince has no flavour it's obviously enhanced by the horse.”

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    by FHall

    Tuesday, February 12 2013, 3:05PM

    “Cut and paste rubbish of a National not local story - GET A GRIP YOU UNDER PERFORMING HACKS

    Not just North Lincolnshire is it Amy?????????”

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    by Porkmiester

    Tuesday, February 12 2013, 2:52PM

    “CTRL C, CTRL V.”

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