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| Horsemeat scandal: Germany pulls lasagne off shelves | Horsemeat scandal: Germany pulls lasagne off shelves |
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| Horsemeat has been detected in frozen lasagne on sale in Germany and supermarkets have started removing the product from their shelves. | Horsemeat has been detected in frozen lasagne on sale in Germany and supermarkets have started removing the product from their shelves. |
| The Real supermarket chain said it had withdrawn TiP frozen lasagne - the latest tainted processed food to figure in a Europe-wide scandal. | The Real supermarket chain said it had withdrawn TiP frozen lasagne - the latest tainted processed food to figure in a Europe-wide scandal. |
| Other German retailers including Tengelmann and Rewe are now checking their processed beef products too. | Other German retailers including Tengelmann and Rewe are now checking their processed beef products too. |
| The EU is urging member states to conduct random tests for horsemeat. | The EU is urging member states to conduct random tests for horsemeat. |
| All members should carry out DNA tests on processed beef for traces of horsemeat for three months from 1 March, the EU health commissioner said on Wednesday. | All members should carry out DNA tests on processed beef for traces of horsemeat for three months from 1 March, the EU health commissioner said on Wednesday. |
| German authorities suspect a batch of lasagne sent from Luxembourg to a retailer in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. | |
| On Wednesday the state's Consumer Affairs Minister, Johannes Remmel, said that "after analysing the data we have learned that through a middleman in Luxembourg, a significant amount of goods has been shipped to Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia, and those goods are suspected, and I repeat only suspected, to have not been properly labelled". | |
| The shipment is believed to have taken place between November 2012 and January 2013. |