2013 horse meat scandal armed forces . On 1 March the Department of Food and Veterinary of Lithuania announced that horse meat was found in three canned beef brands sold by Latvian company Kuršu Zeme. Canned beef made by the Latvian company was removed from sale in Lithuania. On 10 April 2013, it was reported that two Dutch trading companies owned by the same person who had previously been investigated by food safety officials may have supplied of adulterated beef containing horse meat since January 2011. On 7 February 2013, it was revealed by the Food Standards Agency that the Findus beef lasagne range
Criticism of Tesco but Tesco backed down. Tesco has been subject to several claims of apparently out-of-date food being 'back-labelled' to appear still to be within date, poor café hygiene and a staff member contracting legionnaires' disease in the Wrexham store. Tesco denied squeezing its suppliers in December 2013 after retail analyst Cantor Fitzgerald accused Tesco of practices that risked breaching the Groceries Supply Code of Practice and criticized its trading relationships. Similar accusation were also made in April 2005 despite its record £2 billion profit. In May 2004, Tesco announced it was reducing sick pay in an attempt to reduce levels of