British food safety authorities say about 1 per cent of the beef products they have tested so far contain horse meat.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) tested 2,501 products and found 29 contained horse meat.Testing covered only one-quarter of the entire range of available products, and did not look for contamination of less than 1 per cent. "The overwhelming majority of beef products in this country do not contain horse," FSA chief Catherine Brown said.The examples we have had are totally unacceptable, but they are the exceptions.All of the 29 products containing horsemeat have already been withdrawn from sale.

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