The French producer of the ready meals found to contain horse meat said Sunday it had been "fooled" by its meat supplier and would seek compensation, dpa reported.
"We were victims and it's clear now that the problem was neither with Findus nor with Comigel," the head of Comigel, Erick Lehagre, told Agence France-Presse.
Lehagre repeated that his company had been convinced the meat supplied by French supplier Spanghero was pure beef.