Portugal seizes 79 tonnes of beef with horse meat

After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings company Ikea said today its own tests confirmed "a few indications of horse meat" and that it would also remove wiener sausages made by the same supplier.

Ikea said it would withdraw the sausages from stores in France, Britain, Spain, Ireland and Portugal. Other stores were getting sausages from other suppliers, company spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said.