The Dutch health watchdog said Wednesday it had halted distribution of 690 tonnes of meat from an abattoir after a probe found traces of horse in products marked as beef. "During a criminal ...

JEWISH and Muslim representatives appealed to Dutch lawmakers not to enforce plans requiring animals to be stunned before halaal and kosher slaughtering rituals. "We are against any form of stunning ...

The Dutch food safety authority NVWA failed to act on reports of abuse at several Dutch abattoirs, preferring instead to move the vet who reported the problems to a new job, the NRC said at the ...

Police and the food agency in the Netherlands have uncovered an illegal slaughterhouse. The Intelligence and Investigation Service of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority ...

An abattoir owned by meat processing giant Vion in Apeldoorn was closed down by police on Wednesday because workers had been brought to the location crammed into 18 small buses, news website Nu.nl ...

Electra Partners Monday said it had sold its stake in Netherlands-based Meat Processing Systems for £34m, netting just under twice the amount of cash it put into the deal less than two years ago.

"We are against any form of stunning because it's against our religion," Yusuf Altuntas, president of the CMO - an organisation that links the Muslim community with the Dutch government - told a ...