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| Pembrokeshire withdraws meals after horsemeat found | Pembrokeshire withdraws meals after horsemeat found |
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| Pembrokeshire council has withdrawn all mince products from its schools, care homes and day centres with immediate effect after horsemeat was found in one of its supplier's products. | |
| Meat supplied by Welsh Bros Ltd to a consortium of councils including Pembrokeshire was found to have horsemeat present after tests. | |
| The council said it had received assurances from its other suppliers that their meats were fully traceable. | |
| Welsh Bros said it was a huge shock. | |
| Managing director Alan Haycock from the Newport-based company said: "We do our best to promote quality British products". | |
| He said they had been let down by a non-Welsh company, adding: "We received an e-mail about this last night. A test came back positive. We haven't seen the certificate yet. | |
| "This is all under investigation with trading standards now and we are waiting for further information". | |
| The meat involved was distributed in December 2012. | |
| "We're very busy contacting our customers now and letting them know," added Mr Haycock. | |
| Pembrokeshire council said the mince may have been supplied to schools and council-run residential homes and day centres within the county. | |
| In a separate development, the council said it had also been made aware that frozen beef products supplied to Sodexho, which provides catering services to a private finance initiative school in Pembroke Dock, had also tested positive for horsemeat. | |
| Sodexho has withdrawn all frozen beef products from its UK catering operations. | |
| Meanwhile the council said officers from Pembrokeshire's food safety and standards team were prioritising visits to all cold stores, approved meat products and meat processing premises which had not been inspected in the last 12 months to check relevant documentation, labelling and traceability in line with Food Standards Agency advice. | |
| Pembrokeshire is a member of the Welsh Purchasing Consortium which comprises the 16 local authorities in south, mid and west Wales. |