The horsemeat scandal
The horsemeat scandal proved to be the biggest crisis to afflict the UK food industry since the BSE furore of the 1990s.
It began in January after Irish food safety watchdog the Food Safety Authority of Ireland analysed beef burgers stocked in stores in the UK and Ireland, and gripped the industry ever since.
The results showed that of 27 burgers analysed 10 contained horse DNA and three contained pig DNA.
Since then, the scandal took many twists and turns with major food manufacturing contracts lost, investigations launched and various people blamed for the contamination.
There were fears over meat contaminated with the banned veterinary drug phenylbutazone being sold for human consumption; Tesco pointed the finger at Silvercrest; the Food Standards Agency ran a number of tests and the government launched a wide-ranging review into the food supply chain.
View our record, in pictures, of the horsemeat crisis – as it happened.