After meatballs, Ikea withdraws sausages due to horse meat content

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After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings giant Ikea today said it would also pull wiener sausages made by the same supplier after its own tests confirmed “a few indications of horse meat.”

Ikea said it would withdraw the sausages from stores in France, Britain, Spain, Ireland and Portugal. Other stores were getting sausages from other suppliers, company spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said.

The move comes two days after Czech food inspectors found traces of horse meat in Ikea’s Swedish-made meatballs, prompting the company to pull them from store shelves in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic.

Stores in other countries, including the US and Canada, were not affected because they received meatballs from a different supplier.

Ikea said results from its own tests confirmed some meatballs didn’t just contain beef and pork, despite what their labeling said.

Magnusson didn’t know whether the wieners, which are supposed to be made of ground pork and beef, had also tested positive for horse meat, “but I know that at least some of the meatballs have shown traces of DNA from horse.”