http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The European Commission set out Monday what it said would be a revolution in food safety from farm to fork, drawn up in response to the scandal of horsemeat sold as beef. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-eu-post-horsemeat-food-standards-revamp.html Health Mon, 06 May 2013 11:10:02 EST news287056373 Burgers and meatballs sold in Portugal by French retailer Auchan have been found to contain horsemeat with small traces of an animal painkiller that is potentially harmful to humans, Portugal's consumer watchdog said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-portugal-horse-painkiller-drug-burgers.html Health Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:10:01 EST news281897572 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. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-ikea-horsemeat-meatballs.html Health Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:13:11 EST news281031183 Fish sold in the United States is often deliberately mislabeled, making American consumers the unwitting victims of "widespread seafood fraud," according to a report out Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-americans-frequent-victims-seafood-fraud.html Health Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:14:01 EST news280685632 Days after the initial announcement by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) on the 15th January that horse and pig DNA were found in beef burgers, researchers conducted an online consumer study, as part of the EU-funded project FoodRisC. This study took place before the latest developments about the widespread presence of horsemeat in certain beef products within some European countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-health-consumers-horse-meat-contamination.html Health Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:42:26 EST news280662137 Swiss food giant Nestle has become the latest retailer hit by Europe's horsemeat scandal, announcing it is removing pasta meals from supermarket shelves in Italy and Spain due to contamination. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-nestle-horsemeat-pasta-dishes-italy.html Health Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:01:32 EST news280468882 (AP)—The European Union agreed Friday to begin random DNA checks on meat products in a bid to put a lid on a spreading scandal over horsemeat, while British authorities announced traces of horse had been found in school meals, restaurant dishes and hospital food, as well as supermarket products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-runners-riders-europe-horsemeat-scandal.html Health Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:00:01 EST news280159417 Dutch officials on Friday raided a meat processing plant in the south of the Netherlands believed to be mixing horsemeat and beef and selling it on as pure beef, the public prosecutor said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dutch-raided-horse-beef-prosecutor.html Health Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:50:01 EST news280159497 The EU's top health official on Friday said there was no need to panic over a Europe-wide horsemeat scandal, saying it was a labelling rather than a health issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-panic-horsemeat-scandal-eu.html Other Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:20:02 EST news280137898 (AP)—The price, smell and color should have been clear tipoffs something was wrong with shipments of horsemeat that were fraudulently labeled as beef, French authorities said Thursday. The government pinned the bulk of the blame on a French wholesaler at the heart of a growing scandal in Europe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-uk-men-horsemeat-scandal.html Health Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:11:45 EST news280073489 A Cypriot supermarket chain has destroyed more than 16 tonnes of beef burgers over fears they were contaminated with horsemeat, the authorities said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cyprus-burgers-horsemeat.html Health Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:49:47 EST news280064972 EU ministers called in Europe's law enforcement agency Wednesday to help tackle a spreading crisis over mislabelled frozen meals containing horsemeat and promised a crash DNA food testing in an effort to restore consumer confidence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-eu-ministers-tackle-horsemeat-scandal.html Health Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:20:18 EST news279987610