Dive Summary:

• After calling for an emergency meeting earlier in the week, EU representatives have agreed to DNA test samples of meat from 27 different countries.
• While horse meat isn't bad, nor will it make you sick, the addition of it in meats labeled as something else constitutes serious labeling fraud and may be just the tip of the iceberg.
• The EU's inspection plan hopes to test 6,500 beef samples from around Europe, the results of which may influence new legislation and policy. 

From the article:

While not a food safety crisis in the typical sense, labeling fraud involving at least eight European countries raises all kinds of questions about the security of the EU’s food supply chain.

Prior to the emergency meeting of the EU health ministers, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) raided horse slaughter operations in West Yorkshire and West Wales. Both facilities were immediately suspended pending the completion of the investigation.

FSA said it detained all meat and seized paperwork at the two suspended plants.