THE HAGUE: The Dutch government's food and consumer watchdog has searched and carried out tests for horsemeat at around 100 businesses, as Europe's tainted beef scandal deepens, a top official said on Thursday.
Economic Affairs Deputy Minister Sharon Dijksma said officials of the Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA) probed butcheries and supermarkets across the country, taking around 200 samples from ground beef and other foods which contained meat products. The tests were done to see if any of the products professing to contain beef had horsemeat in them.
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