EU’s rapid alert system reports Irish materials in contaminated beef

Irish materials were in three beef products found to contain horse, in the EU’s latest weekly Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed.

Horse DNA at 1-5% was found in frozen meatballs in Sweden containing raw materials from Ireland; at 2% in chili con carne in Luxembourg and the Netherlands, which came from Belgium, with raw material from Ireland; and at 60-90% in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, in frozen meatballs from Sweden, with raw material from Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland and Poland.

Italian materials were in two processed meats found to contain horse — frozen lasagne bolognese for sale in Italy and the UK; and frozen cannelloni bolognese from France, manufactured in Italy, sold in France.