A vegetable seller in western Germany realised that the lettuce he had been selling throughout the day contained rat poison, a news magazine reported on Friday.
Horse meat found in beef products withdrawn from German shelves has been traced to a supplier in Poland, newsweekly <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Sunday, citing European officials.
A conservative German politician has been slammed for suggesting that poor people be given the meals removed from sale because they contained horse meat. Charities and a Catholic leader said the idea showed an astonishing lack of respect.
Europe's meat scandal is likely to widen, Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner warned on Monday, after it was revealed that horse and pork had been found in German döner kebabs and Nestlé meals with German-supplied meat were taken from shelves across the continent.
Several tonnes of frozen lasagne and cannelloni tainted with horse meat have reportedly made it to supermarket shelves in Germany over the past three months alone.
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The German supermarket chains Real and Edeke on Thursday said they had found traces of horse meat in frozen lasagne already pulled off the shelves as a precautionary measure.
Evidence a horse meat scandal had spread to Germany emerged for the first time on Wednesday after EU authorities realized that falsely labelled lasagna had also been delivered to shops in at least one western German state.
German supermarket chain Kaisers pulled its own brand frozen lasagnes from shelves to check for horse meat after British supermarkets detected up to 100 percent horse in their beef ready meals, it emerged on Monday.