IKEA meatballs return with new controls from "farm to fork"

By Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Furniture retailer IKEA’s trademark meatballs are returning to the menu after last month’s horsemeat scare, with new supply chain controls “from farm to fork”, the company’s head of foods said on Thursday. IKEA in February stopped selling meatballs from its main supplier, Familjen Dafgard in Sweden, after tests showed a batch contained horsemeat. The discovery widened a Europe-wide horsemeat scandal that has damaged confidence in the continent’s vast and complex food industry. …