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Monday 25 February 2013 5:50 am  |  Updated:  Thursday 30 May 2019 3:32 am

Ikea latest in horsemeat scandal

By: Peter Spence

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A Czech veterinary authority has found that the meatballs of Swedish home products company Ikea are contaminated with horse. Ikea is the latest to be implicated in a scandal that has been a public relations blow to other including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.

Horse found in IKEA meatballs – not like them to include more components than you expected…

— Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) February 25, 2013

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