date:Feb 25, 2013
ommission's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) identified horse DNA in the beef lasagna, which is produced by the British company and packaged by the French firm Comigel in Luxembourg.
CFS has ordered retailers to halt the sale of Findus Beef Lasagna, and is awaiting test results for the presence of equine painkiller phenylbutazone, or 'bute', a drug that is unsafe for human consumption.
The horsemeat contaminated beef was imported by ParknShop, a Hong Kong-based supermarket chain wh