La compagnie alimentaire Spanghero - en anglais

French autorities has accused of economic cheating the food company Spanghero, supplier Findus frozen meat, and they suppressed his health approval. Spanghero knew it sold as beef horse, cheaper, according to the French Minister of Consumer Affairs, Benoît Hamon.

It's an european fraud, cheating, The horse meat falsely labeled concerns 750 tons of meat and 4,5 million fraudulent products sold by Comigel in 13 European countries at least 28 companies, including Findus.

M. Hamon said that this meal traffic lasts for several months.

3 men suspected of fraud were arrested : 2 in the welsh factory Farmbox Meats and 1 in an english slaughterhouse. According to the British Food Safety Agency (FSA), the slaughterhouse supplied carcasses of horses to Farmbox Meats.

Six carcasses of horses slaughtered in the country and containing traces of phenylbutazone, a painkiller banned in the diet, were sent to France and are "can be entered into the food chain", said the British authorities.

The european union decided to launch of DNA testing in all member states and entrust to Europol the coordination of criminal investigations. Besides, the EU asks for states to conduct about 4,000 inspections in order to detect the possible presence of phenylbutazone.

The government has said that there may be criminal prosecutions over the discovery of traces of horsemeat in beefburgers sold be several supermarkets in Britain and Ireland.

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