Dive summary:

• Europe's horse meat scandal just grew to include yet another species as the French food safety authority released a report claiming that there may be traces of donkey in some products labeled as beef.
• The current thought is that the meat came from Romania, where, until recently, horse and donkey travel was fairly common.
• Travel using the animals on roads was made illegal in 2006, thus leaving a huge surplus of animals with no role.

From the article:

The French consumer minister, Benoît Hamon, said today that he would not hesitate to take legal action if evidence emerged that the two French companies which handled the meat had been aware of the fraud.

In passing, Mr Hamon also took a swipe at the British Government. He said that London was complaining about weak European food inspection while cutting the budget for EU food-safety checks in Brussels. ...