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Tesco (Other OTC: TSCDY - news) is introducing DNA testing across its meat products and has dropped its frozen burger supplier after burgers containing horse meat were found on sale in its supermarkets.

Tesco said on Wednesday that it had been "working hard to understand" why traces of horse DNA were found in burgers on sale in some of its supermarkets two weeks ago.

The company pledged to stop such an event "ever happening again" and plans to introduce a comprehensive system of DNA testing across its meat products.

Tim Smith, Tesco's technical director, said: "We now understand - with as much certainty as possible what happened. The evidence tells us that our frozen burger supplier, Silvercrest, used meat in our products that did not come from the list of approved suppliers we gave them.

"Nor was the meat from the UK or Ireland (OTC BB: IRLD - news) , despite our instruction that only beef from the UK and Ireland should be used in our frozen beef burgers. Consequently we have decided not to take products from that supplier in future. We took that decision with regret but the breach of trust is simply too great."

Scientific tests carried out by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland found traces of horse DNA in burgers on sale in some of the UK and Ireland's leading supermarkets, including Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Iceland and Dunnes Stores.

Supermarkets have pulled tens of thousands of frozen beefburgers from their shelves after tests revealed that products from Irish supply company Silvercrest contained horse and pig DNA. Tesco was first to remove the products.

Silvercrest, an Irish company, sold beef burgers to Tesco containing 29 per cent horse meat. Silvercrest said earlier this month that it had "done nothing wrong" . It believed the contaminated meat was from Europe and is investigating two suppliers.

"It has shown that, in spite of our stringent tests, checks and controls there remained a small possibility that something could go wrong and it did," said Mr Smith.

"We want to stop it ever happening again, so we are taking action to reduce that possibility still further."

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Philadelphia (PRWEB) January 30, 2013

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Horse DNA has been found in two beef burger products sold in Spain, according to a report by the Spanish consumer organization OCU, adding to concern over food standards after similar discoveries in the U.K. and Ireland.

The products were sold by closely held supermarket chains Eroski and AhorraMas SA, the group said today, adding that the meat was generally of low quality.

OCUs study follows tests by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland that found beef products that contained horse DNA. Tesco Plc (TSCO), the U.K.s largest grocer, was among supermarkets that withdrew some beef products earlier this month. The Irish agency said the beef didnt pose any public health concerns.

Only five out of the 20 products analyzed in OCUs study offered meat with an acceptable level of quality, the Spanish consumer body said. Eroski and AhorraMas own brand Alipende sold products that contained horse DNA without indicating it on their labels, the organization said.

Results clearly show that consumers are being deceived because burgers sold have labels that dont indicate the real ingredients, OCU said in the report. It is not a problem of food security, but it is a deceit to the consumer, who brings home a different product than the one he thinks he is buying.

Some burgers sold by other retailers are too expensive and have very poor quality with high levels of salt, fat and additives, according to the report.

Eroskis burgers dont pose any health risks, the Basque Country, Spain-based company said in an e-mailed statement today. The potential existence of horse DNA in the meat could be derived from being in contact with horse during the manufacturing process, according to the statement.

AhorraMas, based in Madrid, said in a separate e-mailed statement it withdrew all Alipende burgers from its supermarkets after the OCU report was published. The chain doesnt take part in the elaboration process of the burgers, it said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Manuel Baigorri in Madrid at mbaigorri@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Celeste Perri at cperri@bloomberg.net

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Published: Jan. 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM

CLEVELAND, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Ohio prison officials investigating why a serial killer's DNA was not put into a state database said at least 300 others hadn't been recorded.

The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer said one of the 300 felons whose DNA wasn't properly recorded in the database -- violating a state law to collect samples to cross-reference with other cases and provide a record for police to check in future investigations -- was linked to crimes once a new sample was taken.

Larry McGowan, 37, served time for raping a 53-year-old woman and only after being let out on parole was he linked to three previously unsolved rapes and the 1997 murder of Maxine Pratt in Cleveland, the newspaper said.

Prison officials said McGowan's initial test "failed" in 2003 for an unknown reason. Protocol dictates when an inmate's sample isn't properly recorded the private lab that analyzed it was supposed to notify the corrections department and request a new one. It wasn't until 2012 that the lab notified state officials of his failed sample, said JoEllen Smith, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Akron, Ohio, police then took a new DNA sample that linked McGowan to the other cases, The Plain Dealer said.

McGowan has additionally been charged with another alleged rape in November 2012 -- two weeks after he was let out on parole.

The state crime lab's investigation began when Anthony Sowell, who served 15 years in prison for attempted rape and was released in 2005, was arrested again in 2009 for killing 11 women in Cleveland. Sowell's DNA was never recorded prior to his release. Had that happened, police said they may have been able to identify him sooner and stop the killing spree.

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