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Horse ID chips in meat products labelled 100 per cent beef led to the discovery of a food fraud racket in the UK, a court has heard. Businessman Andronicos Sideras (55), one of the owners of north London meat company and sausage manufacturer Dinos & Sons, was allegedly mixing beef with cheaper horsemeat and passing it off as 100 per cent beef between January and November 2012. The meat was allegedly sold with false labels to a number of manufacturing companies. Sideras is accused of having a "key role" in the plot to produce "horsebeef". Sideras, from Southgate, north London, denies conspiracy to defraud and claims he has no idea how horsemeat got mixed into the meat products. |
