Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney will brief a parliamentary committee on the horse meat controversy today after a second processing plant tested positive for equine DNA.

A second Irish meat processing plant has tested positive for traces of horse meat.

Major retailers and suppliers are meeting the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) today to work out how to prevent food becoming contaminated and entering the supply chain.

The company which supplied halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA was named today.