Horsemeat has been found in tinned beef sold in the North, it was revealed.

Irish and British authorities have both been criticised for the slow pace of thier investigation into the horsemeat scandal.

A new documentary series goes behind the scenes at frozen food giant Iceland as it deals with the fall-out from the horsemeat scandal.

Supermarket giant Tesco was left counting the cost of the horse meat scandal as it revealed falling UK sales after a slump in demand for frozen and chilled convenience food.

Plans to establish a new central equine database have been speeded up, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine revealed today.

Test results on 50 samples of beef products in Ireland have all come back negative for horse DNA.

The Department of Agriculture has said it is not expecting any bad news from tests carried out on beef products here.

The Netherlands is recalling 50,000 tons of meat that was sold as beef across Europe and possibly contains horsemeat, because the exact source of the meat cannot be established.

Up to 50,000 tonnes of meat, sold as beef across Europe, is being recalled by Dutch food safety authorities.

Furniture retailer IKEA says it has halted sales of moose lasagne, after traces of pork were found in a batch of the product.

Veterinary authorities have closed a slaughterhouse in central Poland on suspicion it was selling meat from sick animals and others that were dead before arriving for slaughter.

Three samples of meat out of 1,228 tests have come back positive for traces of horse, food safety chiefs have revealed today.

Horsemeat weighing 40kg (88lb) has been sold to shoppers in the UK while wrongly labelled as beef, the country's Food Standards Agency said.

QK Meats, a food company that knew about horsemeat contamination of its beef supply months before the Department of Agriculture discovered it, has admitted its actions in failing to notify the authorities “fell short”.

Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has said he intends to introduce a centralised system for issuing passports to horses.

It has been revealed that one of two plants that slaughter horses here has been suspended from operations following a Department of Agriculture inspection last Friday.

Tesco has withdrawn a line of frozen meatloaf made in Northern Ireland after tests revealed it contained between 2% and 5% horsemeat, it said tonight.

Hot dogs will be back on the menu at Ikea from tomorrow morning.

Consumers must be sure they are not being misled when buying food in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, a gathering of British and Irish parliamentarians has insisted.

ABP chief executive Paul Finnerty — whose company supplied Tesco with beef burgers that turned out to be 29% horsemeat — has told Britain’s food committee it became clear on Jan 14 to 15 that the firm was “out of specification” because product was coming in from a combination of suppliers that were not approved.

Birds Eye says an Irish processor supplied the meat used in two of its products which were found to have horse DNA in them.

The Food Safety Authority has said that 29 out of 957 food samples they tested for horsemeat had horse DNA in them.

The latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel in Ireland, published today for the 12 weeks ending 17 February, reveal the initial impact of January’s horsemeat scandal on consumer shopping habits.

There has been a 20% increase in shoppers picking their local butchers over supermarkets since the horsemeat scandal broke, according to the Association of Craft Butchers in Ireland.

B&F Meats, which had been accused by the Department of Agriculture of mislabelling horsemeat as beef of the Czech market, is back in business and yesterday said it “had not at any stage misrepresented the nature of its products”.

Probes into the recent food scandal highlight the importance of new opportunities for Irish-British co-operation, says Joe McHugh

Traces of horse DNA have been found in beef samples taken from three meat processors in Poland – the first acknowledgement that the country could be a source of the horsemeat that fraudulently ended up in products sold as beef across Europe.

IKEA has this afternoon stopped the sale of its hotdogs as a precautionary measure pending the results of tests on all its meat products.

Tesco has denied it was slow to respond to the horsemeat scandal.

South African food is clear of horsemeat contamination, but it does have water buffalo, donkey and goat meat in mislabelled beef burgers and sausages.

Frozen burger sales are down by 43% and frozen ready meals by 13% in the wake of the horsemeat contamination scandal despite consumers suggesting they would be happy to eat the product in future, new figures from the UK suggest.

The Head of the Food Safety Authority has said he is amazed at the breadth of the worldwide horsemeat scandal his organisation uncovered.

Furniture giant Ikea has stopped selling traditional meatballs in its Swedish store restaurants after horsemeat was discovered in a batch exported to the Czech Republic.

The Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has said a collective response to the horsemeat crisis is the main focus at a meeting in Brussels.

Decisions on compulsory labeling of all meat products will be the main topic of discussion at the Farm Council meeting in Brussels this morning.

EU farm leaders are meeting in Brussels tomorrow to discuss the latest developments in the horsemeat scandal, including the investigation of an Irish meat plant in Tipperary.

Gardaí are investigating a processing plant in Tipperary shut down after inspectors found it was exporting horsemeat under a Czech label which translated as beef.

The Irish Farmers Association is calling for tougher legislation in relation to the labelling of meat.

The Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has said that if fraud is found to be behind the latest twist in the horsemeat scandal, then those responsible will be punished.

A meat processing plant in Co. Tipperary remains closed today following the discovery that it was exporting horsemeat labelled as beef.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland yesterday issued a new protocol for testing the authenticity of foods as gardaí turned their attention to a Tipperary meat plant as part of the investigation into the horsemeat saga.

We seem to be approaching the point where it will be easier to identify the meat plants that have not been embroiled in the horsemeat fraud than it will be to list those that have.

Scotland’s councils have been told not to use any frozen beef products after a burger containing horse DNA was found in a school kitchen.

Operations at the B&F Meats Plant in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, have been suspended after the discovery of horse DNA.