<div class="storyHead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em;"><span><img class=" size-full wp-image-226" src="http://halalnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/penalty%20charge.jpg" width="315" height="211" alt="penalty charge" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></h1> <h1 style="line-height: 1.16em; color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 2.4em; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">Schools, care homes and Armed Forces supplied by firm selling contaminated beef</h1> <div style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">Sodexo, which supplies to 2,300 outlets, is withdrawing beef from its UK sites “with immediate effect” as the scale of the scandal widened yet further today.</p> </div> <div style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">In a second wave of tests, the products linked to samples containing horse DNA were Sodexo's beef burgers, minced beef and halal minced beef, Asda's chilled beef bolognese sauce and a Whitbread Group lasagne and beef burger.</p> </div> <div style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">The catering at Ascot Racecourse, which is attended each year by the Queen, is run by Sodexo Prestige, according to the firm's website, and the company won four awards in last year's National Racecourse Catering Awards for its food.</p> </div> <div style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">A Sodexo spokeswoman would not confirm which of its sites had been supplied with the frozen products however.</p> </div> <div style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">She also declined to name the supplier of the beef products that tested positive for horse DNA and would not say if it was a British or Irish manufacturer.</p> </div> <div style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; background-color: #f4f4f0; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #e5e5e5; margin-bottom: 8px; overflow: hidden; 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by Giant Savings" href="#" target="_blank" style="color: #234b7b; outline: 0px;" rel="noopener noreferrer">programme</a>&nbsp;in place to ensure that there is no horsemeat in its supply chain.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">"We demanded written assurances from across our supply chain that the products we purchase did not contain horsemeat, and additionally implemented an internal sampling programme.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">"Despite repeated guarantees from our suppliers, our sampling has identified a frozen beef product which tested positive for equine DNA. This situation is totally unacceptable.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">"We felt the only appropriate response was to withdraw not only this product but all frozen beef products. 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The move follows tests that found 2% of horse DNA in a chilli con carne dish sold by Birds Eye in Belgium.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em;">Birds Eye's spaghetti bolognese, shepherd's pie and lasagne are made by the same Belgian manufacturer, Frigilunch N.V., and are being withdrawn "as a precautionary measure"</p> </div> <h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em;"><br /><br /></h1> </div>