here . for the surname see spanghero surname . la table de spanghero type privately held company industry meat processing founded castelnaudary france 1970 1970 founder claude and laurent spanghero headquarters castelnaudary france key people barth l my aguerre president operating income 65 000 000 2011 number of employees 360 parent lur berri through poujol website a la table de spanghero.fr la table de spanghero commonly known as spanghero is a french meat processing company based in castelnaudary aude . products include sausages cassoulet minced meat and ready meals . the lur berri cooperative owns 99 % of the company through its holding poujol . 1 contents 1 history 2 scandals 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in 1970 as spanghero sa in castelnaudary by claude and laurent spanghero two former france international rugby players . 2 in the 1990s it was being run by laurent claude and guy spanghero . 3 in 2009 the lur berri cooperative acquired a 90 % stake in spanghero through its holding poujol . 4 5 6 in 2011 the company name was changed to la table de spanghero and by june 2012 executives laurent david and jean marc spanghero had all left the company . 5 in february 2013 lur berri owned 99 % of spanghero . 1 scandals edit 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 . 2 further analysis showed the absence of pathogenic bacteria . 7 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 germany and sweden . 8 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 b uf d soss surgel origine roumanie meaning frozen boneless beef bulk packs 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 . 4 on 14 february 2013 the french government confirmed that spanghero knowingly sold horsemeat labelled as beef and the company s licence was suspended . 9 spanghero president barth l my aguerre denied the claims and several workers demonstrated against the suspension while consumer protection minister beno t hamon defended the government s decision . 10 on 18 february st phane le foll minister of agriculture food and forestry announced that he had sufficient evidence to restore all the company s licences meat cutting charcuterie ... except frozen storage . 11 in march 2013 food inspectors found 57 tonnes of frozen sheepmeat at spanghero that had been imported from the united kingdom and that included mechanically recovered meat msm . msm is banned in the european union as it may contain fragments of bone . bones of bovines ovines or caprids may not be imported into eu countries from countries with a risk of spongiform encepalopathies ; this includes the uk following the mad cow disease outbreak of the 1990s and the prevalence of scrapie among sheep there . spanghero blamed its supplier draap for false labelling . 12 references edit a b lur berri une coop rative devenue monstre agroalimentaire in french . eitb . 12 february 2013 . retrieved 16 february 2013 . a b sawer patrick ; ensor josie 9 february 2013 . french firm supplying horse meat was previously at centre of e.coli scare . the daily telegraph . retrieved 16 february 2013 . maigne jacques 29 march 1995 . les fractures de la soci t fran aise walter spanghero avoir un nom ne suffit plus ... . lib ration in french . retrieved 16 february 2013 . a b on ne touche pas la viande d clare la soci t spanghero . le dauphin lib r in french . 10 february 2013 . retrieved 16 february 2013 . a b il n y a plus de spanghero chez spanghero . midi libre in french . 23 june 2012 . retrieved 16 february 2013 . viande de cheval zoom sur les 4 principaux acteurs du scandale . le nouvel observateur in french . afp . 11 february 2013 . retrieved 16 february 2013 . http www.lefigaro.fr flash actu 2011 06 23 97001 20110623filwww00677 ecolisteaks spanghero hors de cause.php lasagnes la viande de cheval une fraude l chelle europ enne . lib ration in french . afp . 8 february 2013 . retrieved 16 february 2013 . horsemeat scandal france blames processor spanghero . bbc news online . 14 february 2013 . retrieved 16 february 2013 . chrisafis angelique 15 february 2013 . horsemeat scandal french inspectors scour spanghero processing firm . the guardian . paris . retrieved 16 february 2013 . http www.lesechos.fr entreprises secteurs grande consommation actu 0202573688397 spanghero retrouve une partie de son agrement sanitaire 539617.php de la viande de mouton prohib e chez spanghero . le figaro . 19 march 2013 . accessed 21 march 2013 . external links edit french official website french spanghero at lur berri retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title la table de spanghero & oldid 723454147 categories companies based in languedoc roussilloncompanies established in 1970food and drink companies of francemeat processing in franceprivately held companies of francehidden categories cs1 french language sources fr pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles with french language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 3 june 2016 at 04 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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