Ikea says no horsemeat in US meatballs
Ikea said Monday there was no horsemeat in its popular meatballs sold in the United States, after the Swedish furniture giant withdrew possibly horsemeat-tainted meatballs from stores in Europe.
"All meatballs sold in our Ikea US stores are sourced from a US supplier," the company said in a statement, after a test in the Czech Republic showed horsemeat in Ikea meatballs sold there.
"When this issue first came to light in Europe, we mapped the sources of the meat in our meatballs," the US division said.
"Based on the results of our mapping, we can confirm that the contents of the meatballs follow the Ikea recipe and contain only beef and pork from animals raised in the US and Canada."
Ikea, which sells bags of frozen meatballs in the small food sections of its huge furniture stores, pulled the product from shelves in 16 European countries Monday after the Czech Republic tests.
"We have today been informed that our meatballs could contain traces of horsemeat, based on a test done in the Czech Republic," Ikea's European operations said.
"Our own tests haven't shown any traces of horsemeat. We now obviously have to study this further," it added.
Ikea said the meat in its European product normally came from Sweden, Germany and Ireland, but producers from other countries could be contracted when demand was especially high.
Since January a number of ready-made food products sold in supermarkets across Europe and exported abroad have shown that horsemeat has been used and labeled as beef or other products.
The effects were felt as far away as Hong Kong, where a brand of European-made lasagne reportedly tainted with horsemeat has been withdrawn from stores.
But so far the scandal has not touched the shores of the United States and Canada, both large beef and pork exporters.
(c) 2013 AFP
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The issue in Europe has been about honesty and dependability in food labels. And now that we are turning stones, all kinds of irregularities are coming to light.
To recap, horse meat is eaten all over the place on purpose (except maybe in England and a couple of other places). And all these Withdrawn foods are prime food where the only "defect" is faulty labeling.
Horse meat is here a proxy for a much bigger, and potentially health threatening, issue. If we let food stores, wholesales and producers get away with this, we can be sure the next thing we find on our plate is Melamin, chemical by-products and process waste.