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A worker transports pork meat at "DOLY-COM" abattoir, one of the two Romanian companies exporting horse meat to EU countries, in Roma village, 450km north from Bucharest, on February 12, 2013. Romanian Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, said on Monday on a press conference "no irregularities" had been committed by companies in the country despite allegations that two abattoirs had duped European food companies by selling horsemeat as beef. ©AFP

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