{"id":4064,"date":"2013-02-28T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:34:02","slug":"koettbullar-the-swedish-word-for-horseballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/28\/koettbullar-the-swedish-word-for-horseballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

from AP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

IKEA WITHDRAWS MEATBALLS IN MORE THAN 20 COUNTRIES<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0KARL RITTER<\/a><\/em>
\n\"Horseballs\"<\/p>\n

STOCKHOLM (AP) \u2014 Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe’s widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat.<\/p>\n

Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said.<\/p>\n

The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) packs of frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said it tested two batches of Ikea meatballs and only one of them contained horse meat. It did not say how much.<\/p>\n

Meatballs from the same batch had been sent from a Swedish supplier to 12 other European countries \u2014 Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland \u2014 and would be pulled off the shelves in all of them, Ikea said.<\/p>\n

Later Monday, the company expanded the withdrawals to stores in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic, all of which were getting meatballs from the same Swedish supplier.<\/p>\n

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