date:May 22, 2013
The European Union should introduce a specific licence for meat traders to prevent frauds such as the one that duped Europeans across the bloc into eating horsemeat labelled as beef in processed dishes, French ministers said on Tuesday.
France was swept up in the scandal after an investigation identified a French meat-processing firm at the heart of a fraud discovered earlier this year that involved traders and abattoirs from Romania to the Netherlands.
We need to better supervise traders' act