On Friday night Pauline Knowles, whose five-year-old daughter attends the Great Wood primary school in Morecambe, Lancs, described the disclosure as “very concerning”. She said she would start giving her daughter more packed lunches in the future. She said: “I think it is appalling really, that it has not been tested before it has even got to our schools. The fact that horse meat is being passed off as beef, I think is disgusting.”