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Consistently, from the very first, we have been characterising this horsemeat scandal as food fraud, with Owen Paterson picking up the theme of an international criminal conspiracy.As the Environment Secretary last night was hurtling down the motorway between Brussels...

Having virtually ignored the horsemeat scandal, the German media is now crawling all over it with the announcement that adulterated beef products may after all have been sold to German supermarkets.This comes after supply lists from the EU have been obtained, from...

After a week or so of Owen Paterson telling everybody who would listen that food safety is an EU competence, the Daily Express has finally woken up to the fact that food safety is er … an EU competence.The most worrying part of the whole [horsemeat] furore, it...

He, with farmer Carmello Gale, 47, of Llandysul, and one of the Ceredigion's own meat inspectors, Peter Maguigan, had been charged with conspiring to supply unfit meat. Two years later, though, the case was abandoned after evidence was given by plant manager Paul...

At 5.35 pm yesterday, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Owen Paterson, stood up to make a statement to MPs on "developments with regard to horsemeat and food fraud".Obligingly, the Pope decided to resign at the same time, to take the heat out of the issue,...

This is Victor Ponta, who, expressing anger that his country had been blamed, says, "From all the data we have at the moment, there is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory".Without even having to check this, there is...