2013 horse meat scandal restaurant and pub industry, announced that some of its frozen burgers supplied by Silvercrest tested positive for horse DNA. A spokesman said that Makro no longer sold the product in question. On 14 February 2013, the French government stated that French meat processing company À la Table de Spanghero knowingly sold horse meat labelled as beef, and that their licence was suspended while an inquiry continues. Spanghero imported meat from Romania and sold it on to another French company, Comigel, which made frozen ready meals at its factory in Luxembourg. French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoît Hamon said the meat had
Criticism of Tesco scandal an employee, asking for her name to be kept confidential, revealed that her bosses told her, on several occasions, not to dispose of smelly raw meat products, instead she was instructed to wash the meat with sodium hypochlorite and sell it later on. Occasionally, the smelly meat product was grilled and sold like that Allegations were made in the national press that Tesco was stifling operation in some regions and using unnecessarily harsh disciplinary procedures on its employees since the Millennium. In Thailand, Tesco has been criticised for aggressively pursuing critics of the company. Writer and former MP Jit