London Horsemeat News

Dinos & Sons Continental Foods Limited (“Dinos & Sons”) confirms that it is co-operating with local Trading Standards Officers and the FSA in respect of all its current investigations.

Dinos & Sons has been asked to clarify its position in respect of the transportation and storage of frozen beef that was imported by, and belonged to, a third party that the FSA is investigating.

Dinos & Sons did not keep this frozen beef in the same premises as its own products and there was therefore no possibility of any cross-contamination.

Atno time has Dinos & Sons produced or manufactured anything that is underinvestigation or is the subject of any possible contamination or mislabelling.

Thereis no suggestion whatsoever that Dinos & Sons manufacturing processes havebeen compromised in any way. Tests undertaken by independent laboratories onDinos & Sons products have proved negative to date for any contaminants,including horsemeat.

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The Food Standards Agency has said that further to the arrests made yesterday in Wales and West Yorkshire in relation to suspected fraud, there have been seizures of evidence in Hull and London.

A statement said officers entered three premises in England with local authorities and the police; one was in Hull and two in Tottenham.

Computers and documentary evidence have been removed from these premises, as well as meat samples that have been taken for testing.

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