18 February 2013 Last updated at 19:00 ET
Nestle, the world’s biggest food company, has removed beef pasta meals from shelves in Italy and Spain after tests revealed traces of horse DNA.
The Swiss-based firm has halted deliveries of products containing meat from a German supplier.
Nestle is the latest in a string of major food producers to find traces of horsemeat in beef meals.
A spokesman for the company said levels of horse DNA were very low but above 1%.
Last week the firm said its products did not contain horsemeat.
Nestle withdrew two chilled pasta products, Buitoni Beef Ravioli and Beef Tortellini, in Italy and Spain.
Lasagnes a la Bolognaise Gourmandes, a frozen product for catering businesses produced in France, will also be withdrawn.
A spokesman for the company told the BBC that Nestle had identified a problem with a supplier from Germany.
A statement on the Nestle website identifies the supplier as HJ Schypke, a sub-contractor of JBS Toledo, a major meat processing company.
Nestle would now be running tests on all its beef, the spokesman said.
- In mid-January, Irish food inspectors announced they had found horsemeat in some burgers stocked by UK supermarket chains
- Subsequently, up to 100% horsemeat found in several ranges of prepared frozen food in Britain, France and Sweden
- Concerns that a drug used to treat horses, and which may be harmful to humans, could be in food chain
- Meat traced from France through Cyprus and The Netherlands to Romanian abattoirs
- Investigation suggests adulteration was not accidental but the work of a criminal conspiracy
The widening scandal over mislabelled horsemeat has affected at least 12 European countries.
Earlier on Monday, France partially lifted a production ban for meat processing firm Spanghero, one of the companies at the heart of the scandal.
The French government revoked its licence last week over suspicions that Spanghero knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef, an allegation the company rejects.
The French authorities said that unwitting workers should not be penalised.
As a result the firm will be allowed to produce minced meat, sausages and ready-to-eat meals, but not to stock frozen meat.
Meanwhile the UK and Germany have also both pledged to step up testing of frozen food products.
BBC News – Business
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