One of Britain’s biggest supermarkets yesterday pulled all its own brand frozen beefburgers from sale after “exceptionally high” levels of horse meat were found at its Northern Irish supplier.
Asda withdrew the beefburgers as a "precautionary measure" after tests at Freeza Meats in Newry County Down, found beef stored at its plant contained up to 80 per cent horse meat.
Labour will today demand to know whether schoolchildren and hospital patients could have been unwittingly fed beef contaminated with horsemeat.
Until March last year Freeza Meats supplied Sodexo, a company which provides catering for schools, care homes and hospitals.
Mary Creagh, the shadow environment secretary, will write to the environment secretary to say that the Food Standards Agency should carry out tests on all products supplied by Freeza Meats.
She criticised the Food Standards Agency for failing to conduct DNA tests on the meat when they seized it in September last year.
Asda pulls beefburgers after horse meat contamination at supplier - Telegraph
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