Tesco has said that it is “extremely disappointed” following tests that revealed there was less than a 1% chance that a pack of pork chops labelled as British actually came from the British Isles.
Cranswick Country Foods, which supplies the supermarket, said that it had reviewed its systems following the discovery.
A spokeswoman for the supermarket said: "We are extremely disappointed to discover a pork loin product probably came from a Dutch farm, not a British farm. When we specify that we want British pork, we expect to be supplied with British pork. We have spoken with our supplier to make clear that this mistake is unacceptable.
"We've recently trialled this new isotope testing and we are talking to BPEX about how we can develop this alongside our existing tests, to bring even more rigour to our food testing programme."
