2013 horse meat scandal situation. The Food Standards Agency's (FSA) chief executive, Catherine Brown also said "it is unlikely we will ever know" how many unwittingly ate horsemeat. Tesco's market value dropped by . European Union officials, European ministers and Commissioner (Tonio) Borg set up an urgent meeting in Brussels on 13 February 2013 on how to contain the horse meat scandal that exposed flaws in European control systems on food safety, and to formulate an action plan. Following the meeting, EU agriculture ministers announced a three-month programme of DNA testing of processed meat across the European Union. The plan calls for 2,500 random
Criticism of Tesco was fully recovered. "Kitching v Tesco Stores" [1995] C.L.Y. 1731, Miss Kitching was a checkout lady, aged 22. She injured her wrist badly when she tried to stop some soft drinks falling on her. She won £5500 for injury in the course of employment, because she had pain, possibly permanent, in her arm and she was hindered in her hobbies of swimming and writing to pen-pals. "Tesco Stores Ltd v Elogicom Ltd" 2006 EWHC 403, Tesco won a passing off action against misuse of its Internet domain name. "Weight Watchers UK Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd" 2003 EWHC 1109, Tesco