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<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-size: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Welsh factory at centre of 'horse kebabs' scandal was accused of selling illegal meat 10 years ago</h1>
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 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">FSA and police raid slaughterhouses in west Yorkshire and west Wales</span></li>
 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Racehorses and pet ponies could have ended up in restaurants across UK</span></li>
 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Waitrose also pulls range of beef meatballs because they might contain pork</span></li>
 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">FSA boss says contamination of more meats cannot be ruled out</span></li>
 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">David Cameron vows to prosecute criminals who tainted British food</span></li>
 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Owen Paterson flies to Brussels for crisis talks over ongoing scandal</span></li>
 	<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Health fears as it emerges nine horses tested positive for 'bute' last year
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meat from British horses was discovered in takeaway burgers and kebabs yesterday.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The shocking find, which implicates the UK for the first time in the food fraud scandal, came during police raids in Yorkshire and West Wales.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was revealed today that the manager of one of the facilities has previously been accused of selling unfit meat to the public.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Colin Patterson, of Farmbox Meats in West Wales, was arrested in 2002 along with owner Dafydd  Raw-Rees and charged with selling illegally slaughtered and unfit meat, though he was later cleared and Mr Raw-Rees was not charged.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">David Cameron today insisted that if the contamination turned out to be the result of criminal activity, the perpetrators would face 'the full intervention of the law'.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Environment Secretary Owen Paterson flew to Brussels today for crisis talks with other EU leaders in a desperate bid to secure Britain's food supply chain.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He is meeting this afternoon with farming ministers from Ireland, France, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Luxembourg - all countries which have been caught up in the ongoing scandal.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Arriving for the meeting, he called for thorough DNA checks on processed meat throughout Europe and demanded better exchange of information between EU countries.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I think we have a problem that affects all countries across Europe and we need results fast,' Mr Paterson said.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I want to see DNA testing of processed meat during <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; color: #003580;" title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="#">process</a> and DNA testing on finished products as soon as possible across all member states.</span></p>
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<p class="imageCaption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;">Probe: Peter Boddy, pictured at his farm with the wallabies he keeps there, owns a slaughterhouse which has been raided by police over the horse meat scandal but last night denied any wrongdoing</p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Agriculture minister David Heath met with British retailers and suppliers to discuss the issue this morning.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking afterwards, he said: 'I reiterated that the current situation is totally unacceptable and that retailers, caterers and other food business operators need to be completely open with their customers.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon, Mr Cameron said the scandal was 'completely unacceptable' but claimed that the contamination had only come to light as a result of the Government's new, tougher testing regime.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We have also asked for meaningful tests from retailers and producers and they will be published in full,' he added.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Pledging to crack down on any evidence of criminality, the Prime Minister said: 'If there has been criminal activity there should be the full intervention of the law.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He told MPs that retailers were to blame for not ensuring the quality of their supply chain, saying: 'At the end of the day, it is they who are putting products on their shelves and have got to say that they are really clear about where that meat came from, what it was, who it was supplied by.'</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A spokesman for Number 10 refused to say whether or not ministers were still happy to eat processed beef products, but insisted: 'There is no reason to believe frozen food on sale in the UK is unsafe.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne both sidestepped the question of whether they had been eating processed meat since the start of the scandal.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Until last night, foreign abattoirs and food manufacturers had been blamed for what ministers called an ‘international criminal conspiracy’.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But food officials say horses were slaughtered here and their meat sold to takeaways all over the country. The burgers were labelled as beef and the kebabs as lamb. The alarming twist suggests retired racehorses and ponies could have been sold on as regular meat.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police visited a slaughterhouse run by Yorkshire farmer Peter Boddy - known locally for his menagerie of exotic animals - who has denied any wrongdoing.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Paterson described the development as ‘utterly and totally disgraceful’ but pulled out of making an emergency statement to the House of Commons.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The revelation raises fresh fears that consumers could have been damaging their health by eating tainted beef, after it emerged that last year nine horses tested positive for the drug 'bute', which can be harmful to humans.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is currently unknown whether any of the horse meat mistakenly eaten by British consumers contained the painkiller.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Officials insist that all horse meat will be thoroughly tested, but a representative of the scientists charged with the task today said that they did not have the resources to do the job properly.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We don't really have enough people to do the job,' said Liz Moran, president of the Association of Public Analysts. 'Unfortunately, the public analysts service has deteriorated over the last few years due to closing laboratories and reduced numbers of public analysts.'
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Government has been accused of delay, confusion and buck-passing in its handling of the crisis. In the three weeks that followed the initial discovery of horse meat contamination, ministers insisted it was not a British problem while the Food Standards Agency limited the scope of its initial tests to around 230 food samples.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But following revelations of high levels of contamination of Findus products Mr Paterson called in supermarkets and food firms for talks and insisted on a much wider range of testing of all processed beef products.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mary Creagh, Labour’s environment spokesman, said: ‘I’m glad the FSA has investigated the concerns about horse meat entering the food chain I first raised with ministers three weeks ago. It’s right that action is being taken to deal with the criminals whose activities are damaging confidence in the UK food industry.’</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The horse meat scandal first came to light last month when it emerged that Tesco and other major retailers had been selling burgers which contained large proportions of horse.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The contaminated meat was found to have come primarily from a factory in Ireland, which apparently sourced its 'beef' from Poland.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As well as Tesco, Burger King, the Co-op, Asda and Aldi scrabbled to repair their public image and withdraw tainted products from shelves.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The scandal escalated last week when it was revealed that frozen-food firm Findus had produced beef lasagne which was almost entirely made up of horse meat.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That contamination was linked to French firm Comigel - but yesterday's revelations are the first suggestions that horse meat from the UK has entered the food chain.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The astonishing revelation makes clear that horse meat has reached British high streets from three separate sources over the past year or more.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">First, horse meat from Poland was sent to Ireland where it was turned into burgers for Tesco, Burger King, the Co-op, Asda and Aldi, among others.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then, horse meat from Romania was sent to a French food company, Comigel, which turned it into lasagne and spaghetti bolognese for Findus, Tesco and Aldi.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now a Yorkshire slaughterhouse and a food manufacturer in Wales have taken horses and turned them in to 100 per cent horse meat burgers and kebabs.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police raids were carried out yesterday on the Peter Boddy Licensed Slaughterhouse at Todmorden, West Yorkshire, which is licensed to kill horses.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It supplied horse carcasses to Farmbox Meats Ltd of Llandre in Aberystwyth, which then turned them into burgers labelled as beef or kebabs that would presumably be sold as lamb.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last night, the FSA said: ‘The FSA has detained all meat found and seized paperwork, including customer lists from the two companies.’ The FSA’s director of operations, Andrew Rhodes, said: ‘I have suspended both plants immediately while our investigations continue.’
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Boddy, who runs the slaughterhouse at the centre of the raids, last night denied any wrongdoing. He claimed he had never heard of Farmbox Meats, but he said he will co-operate with FSA officers.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It was not a raid – they are welcome to visit whenever they want, they just wanted to see my records which I will be showing them,’ he said. He added that he does slaughter horses at his plant and that the meat is sold in the UK.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Farmbox Meats is owned by the wealthy Raw-Rees family who live nearby. Company director Dafydd Ffredric Raw-Rees, 64, confirmed that the facility processed horse but said he was not supplied by Mr Boddy and denied that the meat was sold as beef.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We would never confuse horse meat with beef, we are just a cutting plant,' he told the Daily Telegraph. 'I merely debone the meat and send it back as part of the contract. The horse meat is sold in Belgium.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Today he said that he had only been processing horse for three weeks, saying: 'A chap came from Ireland to see me and to ask us to process his horses.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The horses comes from a licensed abbatoir in Ireland - we offload it, debone it, pack it and it goes off to Belgium. Horsemeat may be taboo at the moment but it makes business sense and I have no intention of not doing it.'
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A villager, who did not want to be named, said: ‘We’ve heard that horse carcasses were being shipped into the meat factory for processing. It’s a bit of a shock because local farmers around here are producing top beef and lambs for market. There’s no need for anyone to eat horse.’</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We have actually exonerated quite a lot of businesses so far in our investigations and I am sure that will continue to be the case,' he told BBC Breakfast.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added that the agency was investigating all five British abattoirs which are known to process horse meat regularly.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Addressing the raid in Wales, he said: 'We spoke to the staff there and we seized product and we found that horse meat had been used as though it were beef in kebabs and burgers at that premises.'</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Peter Boddy, right, the farmer whose slaughterhouse is under investigation by police, is well-known locally for his collection of exotic animals.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At his farm in Todmorden, West Yorkshire - separately from his abattoir business - Mr Boddy keeps dozens of beasts not usually found in the North of England.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some of his menagerie are native to Australia, such as wallabies and black swans, while larger beasts include elk, ostriches and bison.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He also keeps small animals like porcupines and muntjac deer.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A large herd of red deer, which he sends out to other farmers for breeding, is kept at his own deer park close to his farm and abattoir.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Boddy's zoo has its origins in an initiative called Live Animal Capture, which sedates dangerous animals and takes them into captivity for the safety of themselves and others.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He claims to have been involved with capturing and rescuing escaped animals for more than 20 years, and runs a 24/7 helpline for anyone who spots a dangerous animal in the wild.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We are very clear on what has happened there. That is why we have seized all the meat that is there, that is why we have seized all the paperwork and that is why we involved the police both in Dyfed Powys and also in West Yorkshire.'
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rhodes said that further tests were being undertaken on a range of beef products from other suppliers, with results starting to come in from Friday.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Friday is when we have told the manufacturers and retailers to start submitting the highest risk areas,' he told Radio 4's Today programme. 'What they are looking for here is presence of horsemeat and pork in processed beef products.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Claims that EU policy was to blame for the scandal were rejected by the European Commissioner for health today.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tonio Borg insisted that it was up to individual countries to police consumer products and denied that their were health concerns over the contamination.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The EU food safety system is one of the safest in the world,' he said. 'Thanks to this system and its capacity for full traceability, national authorities are in a position to investigate this matter so as to find the source of the problem.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One supermarket expert blamed the scandal on the vicious competition between retailers to offer the lowest prices.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'These products are there to offer value for consumers, but the reality is they are just too cheap,' said Birmingham University lecturer Pamela Robinson, a former Tesco executive. 'This is a wake-up call to Government and the industry.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'A more comprehensive system of control and monitoring will be required in the future, which most likely will add cost to the weekly shop. And yes, this may lead to greater food inflation.'</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Legitimate horse butchers have reported a growth in sales as a result of the increased publicity surrounding horse meat.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Staff at Derbyshire-based Exotic Foods say sales of their horse steaks, burgers and mince have increased tenfold since the scandal broke.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We've been amazed at the impact the scandal has had on our sales,' manager Verl Dowling said. 'We're getting far more interest than ever in our horse products, and horse meat is now our top selling item.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'You might have thought all the recent publicity over the issue would put people off, but in fact it seems to have sparked people's imaginations.'</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The raids came as Waitrose announced it was pulling a range of beef meatballs after tests revealed they might contain pork.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A spokesman said that tests on the 480g packs of 16 frozen Essential Waitrose Meatballs had been contradictory but it was removing them from sale as a precaution.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We have discovered that in two batches of our frozen meatballs produced last summer some of the meatballs may contain some pork,' he said.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Several tests have been done on this product and, even though the results have been contradictory, we have taken the precautionary action of removing the frozen meatballs from sale and putting up customer information notices in all our branches.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The meatballs are safe to eat but pork is not listed as an ingredient and should not be part of the recipe.'</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Only 480g packs labelled as Best Before End June 2013 and August 2013 are affected, he added.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The astonishing revelation now makes clear that horse meat has now reached British high streets from three separate sources for a year or even longer.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sources in the farming industry say Mr Boddy used to collect dead animals from across the north west to dispose of their carcasses. It is believed the meat from the dead animals was then used in dog food.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lamb curries, kebabs and processed foods such as shepherd's pie ready meals may be contaminated with cheap horse meat, it was also claimed yesterday.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There is evidence dating back many years of restaurants, curry houses and kebab shops substituting lamb with cheaper alternatives</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Just last year, a survey of 20 lamb curries in the West Midlands found all had been bulked up with cheaper beef, pork and chicken.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Amazingly, four contained no lamb at all, rather the outlets used either beef or chicken which was hidden beneath a powerful and spicy sauce.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said that a number of food companies have turned to cheap foreign meat over the past year following a ruling by the European Commission on the use of a substance called desinewed meat.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Brussels said this material, which is effectively tiny scraps of flesh scraped from bones in a tumble-dryer type machine, could no longer be described as meat.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As a result, companies that had been using this material to bulk up the claimed meat content of processed foods had to look for alternatives.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One option was to import cheap carcass meat from abattoirs across Europe, which left them open to food fraud.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Woolfe said: ‘Manufacturers of value products had to leave the UK food chain and look at overseas suppliers at a price similar to desinewed meat.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘This is why this has started to go wrong. The longer the food chain the more difficult it is to control.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘You would think it would set alarm bells ringing but it did not. There was an obvious risk. The companies were seeking a low price and that is asking for trouble.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘In principle there should not be anything wrong with a company going abroad for meat, as the EU has the same rules, but in practice, the longer and more complex the supply chain, the more difficult it is to control. That is a lesson we have learned the hard way.’
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The claims come as a survey found more than one in three shoppers has been frightened away from buying processed meat by the horsemeat scandal.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At the same time, one in 20 have been put off the idea of buying any type of meat, according to a poll by GMI.</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It appears that trusted names such as Tesco, Burger King, the Co-op, Asda, Iceland, Aldi and Findus did not know what is going into their products.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Michael Walker, science and food law consultant at LGC, who are expert analysts, said: ‘Food fraud robs consumers of choice over what we pay for food and what we put in our mouths.’</span></p>
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