A potenitally dangerous horse painkiller has not been detected in Findus food products - but traces of the drug have been found in carcasses slaughtered at UK abattoirs, MPs have been told.
Agriculture Minister David Heath told the House of Commons that eight carcasses tested positive for traces of anti-inflammatory drug phenylbutazone, known as bute.
Three of those carcasses entered the food chain in France, Mr Heath said, but the other five had not.
"The FSA (Food Standards Agency) is working with France to recall the meat," Mr Heath said.
Mr Heath said the FSA tested 206 horse carcasses for bute, which is potentially harmful to human health.
Of the eight that tested positive, six were slaughtered by LJ Potter Partners at Stillman's in Taunton, Somerset.
Those carcasses were sent to France, but only three of them were believed to enter the food chain.
The remaining two, from High Peak Meat Exports in Nantwich, Cheshire, did not leave the slaughterhouse and have been destroyed.
Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies said that although the drug was linked to side-effects in humans who took it, the risk was very low.
"If you ate 100% horse burgers of 250g, you would have to eat, in one day, more than 500 or 600 to get to a human dose," she said.
"It would really be difficult to get up to a human dose."
The FSA has said there is no evidence to suggest the horsemeat detected in beef products poses a danger to humans, but the agency did order tests for bute as animals treated with the drug are not allowed to enter the food chain.
Bute was used on humans to treat rheumatoid arthritis and gout in the 1950s. It was banned however due to negative side effects, including causing blood disorders.
Mr Heath met representatives of British food retailers and suppliers on Wednesday.
He said he received assurances that "meaningful" results will be available on Friday from tests designed to detect the presence of horsemeat in products labelled beef.
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