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À la Table de Spanghero is a French prepared meat producer. It is based in Castelnaudary, Aude, and is mainly owned by the Lur Berri cooperative.

The company was founded in 1970 as "Spanghero SA" in Castelnaudary by Claude and Laurent Spanghero, two former France international rugby players.[1]In the 1990s, it was being run by Laurent, Claude and Guy Spanghero.[2] Products include sausages, cassoulet, minced meat, hamburgers, and ready meals.

Since 2009, the firm is 90% owned by Lur Berri cooperative.[3] [4]

Scandals

In June 2011 the company had to withdraw 12 tonnes of mince because of suspected contamination by E.coli, which causes potentially fatal food poisoning.[1]

Spanghero is implicated in the 2013 horse meat contamination scandal, having supplied meat labelled as beef but actually horse to Comigel, which was then used in frozen food products such as lasagne, sold in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden.[5] The company stated that it had not opened the packages of frozen meat product before sending them on to the Luxembourg factory of the Comigel subsidiary Tavola. The packages had been labelled minerai de bœuf désossé surgelé (origine Roumanie) (frozen raw material of deboned beef (origin Romania)). Spanghero also said that they wanted to be sure that it was the product that they had supplied that was in question, because they were not Tavola's only supplier.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "French firm supplying horse meat was previously at centre of E.coli scare". 130210 telegraph.co.uk
  2. ^ "Les fractures de la société française : Walter Spanghero «Avoir un nom ne suffit plus...». Libération. 29 March 1995. http://www.liberation.fr/france/0101134757-les-fractures-de-la-societe-francaise-walter-spanghero-avoir-un-nom-ne-suffit-plus
  3. ^ a b "'On ne touche pas la viande', déclare la société Spanghero". Le Dauphiné Libéré. 10 February 2013. http://www.ledauphine.com/societe/2013/02/09/on-ne-touche-pas-la-viande-declare-la-societe-spanghero
  4. ^ Il n'y a plus de Spanghero chez Spanghero. Le Midi Libre, 23 June 2012
  5. ^ "Les lasagnes à la viande de cheval déclenchent un scandale européen". Libération 8 February 2013. http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/02/08/du-cheval-roumain-dans-les-lasagnes-findus_880511
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