If there is anybody who can alleviate the cost-of-food crisis at this time, it would be not the ethanol industry but the processedfood producers themselves.
The investigations come as Europe's foodindustry has been engulfed by a meat processing and labelling scandal after multiple processed meat products labelled as beef were revealed to contain quantities of horsemeat.
The latest product withdrawal comes as the Food Standards Agency prepares to announce the results of industry test results on hundreds of processed beef products for the presence of horsemeat.