Icelandic voters have removed the ruling Social Democrat party from power in the country's general election.
The country has elected a centre-right government that ruled over its financial collapse in 2008.
"We are offering a different road, a road to growth, protecting social security, better welfare and job creation," Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson, the favourite to become the next prime minister.
Iceland has confirmed all of its own brand products have been checked for the presence of horse DNA and all results are clear.
The Co-operative Group says tests of its own-brand burgers, supplied by Silvercrest, found traces of less than 1% horse DNA in three samples and 17.7% in one sample.
Our decision to withdraw these products at the first opportunity and cease taking further product from this site has proven to be the correct course of action.
Whilst there are no safety issues involved, it is now apparent that some of the withdrawn products have not met the high standards we and our customers expect. We apologise for this.
– Co-operative GroupWe specify that all meat in our frozen burgers should be 100% British but we now strongly believe that some of the meat used to produce these burgers came from outside the UK and was not British in origin, and as a result we have taken the decision to delist Silvercrest as a supplier with immediate effect.
In addition we are tightening our already stringent quality checks to ensure our products meet the high specifications that we set on behalf of our customers.
Iceland's Technical Manager Trish Twohig told the Commons Environment Committee that the supermarket was "passionate about food safety" and that future product assessments would "include equine testing".
Iceland's Technical Manager Trish Twohig said she was "sorry" that contaminated meat was found in the supermarket's burgers and that they were "extremely disappointed" by the situation.
Tesco's Group Technical Director Tim Smith said the supermarket was "appalled" over the burgers that contained 29% horsemeat and they took "full responsibility" for the error.
Mr Smith told the Commons Environment Committee that the supermarket would "continue to investigate as though Tesco and not the supplier was responsible."
Irish authorities believe that "filler product" found in contaminated burgers came from Poland and was a mixture of beef and horse offcuts, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said.
The contaminated beef, which was sold in supermarkets, was in the form of blocks of frozen product from a Polish supplier that had been used for a year.
Investigations are going on into how long contaminated meat might have been in use, FSA chief executive Catherine Brown told the Commons Environment Committee.
The food processing group which owns the Irish supplier Silvercrest - dropped by Tesco after an investigation into how horse DNA ended up in its frozen burgers - says it has introduced new measures to audit where its meat comes from.
Tesco's internal investigation found Silvercrest supplied meat that did not come from the list of approved suppliers, or from the UK or Ireland.
The ABP Group said: "We have put in place new procedures to audit all our third party suppliers."
Tesco has promised customers that introducing DNA checks "will set a new standard" in the testing of meat products.
The supermarket said that the discovery of horse DNA in frozen burgers shows that "in spite of our stringent tests, checks and controls, there remained a small possibility that something could go wrong and it did."
"We want to stop it ever happening again, so we are taking action to reduce that possibility still further."
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) found horse DNA earlier this month in beef burger products sold by Tesco and several other supermarkets.
It said most of the affected burgers contained very low levels of horse DNA, but in one Tesco sample horse meat accounted for about 29 percent relative to the beef content.
After that ABP Food Group, which owns Silvercrest, said it had never knowingly sold equine products.
Tesco says introducing DNA testing of its meat products will be "a significant investment for Tesco, borne by Tesco."
What about the Food Standards Agency doing some? Should it be at the discretion of retailers?
