Waitrose pulls beefburgers 'as a precaution' amid horsemeat scare

supermarket stops selling burgers made by Dalepak, one of the companies at the center of research horse

Waitrose has become the latest supermarket to remove from their shelves after the crisis of minced horsemeat.

The company said it had stopped selling frozen hamburgers made by Dalepak - one of the companies at the center of the investigation into horse meat - pollution. "As a precautionary measure" following the suspension of registration of the company

Ten million hamburgers are made in supermarkets throughout Ireland and the UK since it was known that certain lines sold by Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland contained traces of horse meat.

• In a statement, said its burgers Waitrose has since been tested and found that 100% beef.
• "Because we are 100% sure of the integrity of our supply chain," he said. "The ingredients of our burgers are simple but the meat traceable back to British farms we know.

"Our technical team visited the site last week Dalepak and we were pleased that our products have been manufactured to our high specifications and separated from those of other undertakings (ours occur to 6 hours before further hamburgers, etc.). "

ABP Food Group, one of the largest European suppliers and processors, has ceased to work in the factory Silvercrest Foods in County Monaghan, Ireland, after tests last week revealed a contamination of frozen hamburgers.

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