date:May 10, 2013
ountries showed that Francehad found the most beef products containing horse DNA, whileBritain had detected the most traces of a painkiller banned fromthe human food chain. Results from more than 7,000 tests carriedout by the 27 countries in the union found horse DNA in aboutfive percent of samples, while phenylbutazone, the banned drugused as an equine painkiller, was discovered in about 0.5%percent of samples.
Borg had said last month that the findings showed that it was amatter of food fraud