Horsemeat

Findus’s beef lasagne may have been contaminated with horsemeat since the summer, Labour MP Tom Watson says.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson insists “unprecedented” tests have been set up to tackle the horsemeat scandal and denies the FSA has failed consumers.

Food Standards Agency (FSA) chiefs say they have no indication that there are any health concerns after it emerged some Findus beef lasagne contains up to 100 per cent horsemeat.

Shoppers in north London tell Channel 4 News they are “upset” and “disappointed” after it emerged that some Findus beef lasagne contains up to 100 per cent horsemeat.

Andrew Rhodes, director of operations at the FSA, tells Jon Snow the agency is not advising anyone to stop eating ready meals, and that the FSA “has enough resources” to deal with the scandal.

Oliver Peyton, owner of several restaurants and the founder of Peyton and Byrne, tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that he hopes the horsemeat scandal will spell the end for ready meals.

We know traces of horsemeat were found in some frozen food. But how did it get there, what is safe to eat – and who had the best “horse-burger” jokes? Channel 4 News has the answers.

As the horsemeat scandal widens to include beef products beyond burgers, Channel 4 News lists the products which have been taken off the supermarket shelves so far.

As tests are ordered on beef products after the discovery of horsemeat in ready meals on supermarket shelves, Channel 4 News looks at the food testing regime in Britain.

Another Irish meat processing plant has tested positive for traces of horse meat, Ireland’s Department of Agriculture confirms.

Supermarket Tesco has dropped its frozen burger supplier Silvercrest after an investigation into horse meat found in its burgers. But questions remain over the true source of the rogue ingredient.

The Food Standards Agency has told Channel 4 News that UK horse meat contaminated with a toxic drug was consumed in France before it could be recalled.

Tesco publishes full page apologies in a number of national newspapers after it emerged the supermarket had been selling beef burgers containing horse meat.

Tesco removes burgers from its shelves after one of its burger brands was found to contain 29 per cent horse meat in an investigation by a food safety watchdog.

Horse meat in “beef burgers” would not have been picked up by trading standard officers in the UK because we don’t routinely test for it, Channel 4 News has learned.