British retailer Tesco, caught up in a horsemeat scandal, said it axed an Irish beef supplier. National outrage erupted after equine DNA was found in

US-based mass spectrometry products provider AB SCIEX has developed a new method to detect horse DNA in meat samples.

Further test results from the first two phases of the FSA’s UK-wide sampling programme of beef products have now been confirmed.

Sampling of the first and second phases of the Food Standards Agency's UK-wide survey of beef products has been completed and the initial test results

The FSA has confirmed results for four of the remaining five samples relating to the Agency’s UK-wide sampling programme of beef products.