The Netherlands is dealing with a renewed outbreak of the horse meat scandal.
An official recall has been ordered for as much as 11,000 kilos of meat believed to be horse meat but sold illegally last year in the country as beef.
The meat came from equestrian centres, pharmaceutical labs and private owners in France.
Worryingly, some of the horses had been used by a French pharmaceutical company to develop serums against rabies and other diseases.
Dutch inspectors claimed that the food posed little danger to humans but was still deemed unfit for human consumption. "The microbiological risks are very small, because the slaughter took place in approved EU slaughterhouses," read a statement.
A good quantity of the meat would certainly already have been consumed by people in the Netherlands.
The meat was labelled with false documents describing it as been and entered the Netherlands through Belgium.
Last month, 21 cattle traders, butchers and vets in France were arrested on suspicion of selling the falsified meat.
The initial scandal broke exactly one year ago on 14 January 2013. Horse DNA was found in frozen burgers being sold in Ireland and the UK. It had entered the food chain through a highly complex international fraud involving traders and abattoirs from Romania to Belgium and the Netherlands.
