UK supermarkets have withdrawn batches of lamb due to a drug scare.

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Asda and wholesaler Metro have withdrawn products from sale after supplier Welsh Country Foods said that certain batches of lamb meat and offal could have been contaminated with “veterinary medicine residues”.


The Food Standards Agency said the batches of lamb could contain meat from sheep sold for breeding purposes and was not intended to enter the food chain immediately.


Some of the sheep had been treated with veterinary drugs to combat sheep scab that was not given enough time to pass through the animals’ systems.

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