date:Mar 27, 2013
mostly avoid adverse mediacoverage from the horsemeat scandal, said Kantar analyst FraserMcKevitt.
A horsemeat scandal erupted across Europe's food industry inJanuary when testing in Ireland revealed that some beef productsalso contained equine DNA.
Tesco said on March 12 it had withdrawn a line of frozenmeatloaf after it tested positive for between 2 to 5 percenthorsemeat.
Kantar said grocery inflation was 4.2 percent for the12-week period.
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