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- View of Nestle's logo on a road sign near the world's biggest food company headquarters in Vevey. Swiss giant Nestle has become on February 19, 2013 the latest food company hit by Europe's horsemeat scandal, withdrawing two types of pasta meal from supermarket shelves in Italy and Spain due to contamination.
Paris: The world’s biggest food company, Swiss-based Nestle, and the world’s top beef producer, JBS of Brazil, were on Tuesday the latest in a long list of firms to be embroiled in Europe’s spiralling horsemeat scandal.
Their involvement in the fast-moving drama marked another milestone in a scandal that has seen supermarket chains across Europe pull from their shelves millions of “beef” products that are thought to contain horsemeat.
Nestle announced it was removing two ready-to-eat meals — beef ravioli and beef tortellini — from supermarket shelves in Italy and Spain after tests found traces of horse DNA in the products.
That brings to around a dozen the number of countries where tests have confirmed that horsemeat has been fraudulently passed off as beef.
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