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Australian supermarket company Woolworths will DNA test its home brand meals for traces of horse meat as the frozen food scandal continues corporate premium to  European supermarkets.

The grocery chain, which uses New Zealand-sourced beef in many of its own products, will check to ensure the meals contain only beef as stated, Limited reports.

"While we have a robust traceability process in place, we will be testing Woolworths-branded ready meals and other meat lines for customers' peace of mind," Woolworths spokesman Benedict Brook said.

It's rival, Coles, also revealed it would check with suppliers to ensure there was no chance of contamination in its frozen foods.

"We advertising premium're comfortable we have no exposure to the substitution cases found in Europe and the UK," Coles spokesman Jim Cooper told

Limited.

New Zealand meat industry officials said earlier this week that it was "highly unlikely" that beef products had been contaminated with horsh flesh.

Horsemeat has been detected in ready-to-eat meals like lasagne and beef patties in , Britain and Ireland.

Police in England have raided slaughterhouses in the country's north overnight while Dutch and Swiss supermarkets have also pulled products from the shelves as a precaution promotional premium.