Agriculture Report - Europe's Horse Meat Problems

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VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in English. Ikea recently recalled frozen meatballs from its European after tests found some contained horse meat. Czech investigators they found small amounts of horse meat in Swedish at an Ikea store in the Czech Republic. Ikea the big Swedish company that sells furniture. But its also sell Swedish foods. The packaging said the meatballs beef and pork. Ikea said meatballs from the contaminated were sent to stores in some other European countries. included Belgium, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Greece and the . Recently, laboratory tests found horse meat being sold as in a number of European Union countries. The EU enforcement agency, Europol, is investigating the meat industry. Owen is the British environment secretary. He says the sale horse meat as beef is unacceptable. He called it fraud on the public. Millions of food items have removed from stores, schools and hospitals. No one has any health problems, and the French eat horse meat. the situation has upset consumers across Europe. In Britain, meat was discovered in frozen meals sold by the frozen food company Findus. In France, an investigation has the French meat processing company Spanghero of knowingly selling meat as beef. The company denies the accusation. The requires the packaging of fresh meat to identify the where it was produced. But in prepared meals only kind of meat used is required to be listed. VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman. (Adapted from a program broadcast 26Feb2013)

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