According to a statement released this Thursday by Swedish furniture maker and incidental restaurateur IKEA, samples of meatballs taken from within the retailer’s Thailand store have proven to contain horsemeat.
IKEA has been under heavy scrutiny since late February, when a Czech foodstuffs inspector discovered that meatballs at a Czech IKEA outlet contained trace amounts of horseflesh.
Subsequent investigations have shown that the meatballs IKEA distributed to many other countries, including Thailand, included horsemeat as well.
The Bangkok Post reports that IKEA will continue to withhold the sale of meatballs from its Bang Na store, awaiting the result of further investigations into its food-handling policies.
