The widespread European fear earlier this year, where meat labeled as beef sold in Aldi's chain stores were found to actually contain 100% horse meet, is resulting in multiple arrests.
The director and interim director of Wiljo Import en Export BV and Vleesgroothandel Willy Selten were arrested on charges of false accounting and fraud.
Reports say that Willy Seten played a key role in Europe's horse meat scandal, in which he sold 300 tons of horse meat were labelled as beef and sold in markets.
When the news of the horse meat scandal entered into France, United Kingdom inspectors announced that some horses may contain equine painkillers that would harm humans.
Arrests have also been made at Britain at Farmbox Meats, Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse, UK Food Standards Agency told CNN.
French Consumer Affairs is also looking into Spanghero, the first company who allegedly labeled the meat as beef. Minister Benoit Hamon says that the company slipped 750 tons of horse meat into the market over a period of six months.
The Food Standards Agency states that panic first began in Europe when 8 out of 206 horse carcasses were tested positive for bute (phenylbutazone) between January 30 and February 7.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has previously issued a statement saying that "some patients treated with phenylbutazone have experienced severe toxic reactions." It is a cancer-inducing agent, and may create different blood conditions.
The drug is used to treat cases of severe arthritis in horses, and should not enter the human body.
As German food safety authority contacted many of their suppliers, the contaminated meat have reached 39 butchers, 184 supermarkets, 290 traders, warehouses and processing plants, and 1,722 hotels, restaurants and caterers.
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