Were you in a yoga class last night, in downward-facing dog only too look up and see a little too much of the person in front of you through their Lululemon yoga pants?

This is apparently an issue.

The company announced: “We have determined that certain shipments of product received from our factories and available in store from March 1, 2013 do not meet our technical specifications. The items affected are certain styles of women’s bottoms in our signature black Luon fabric. The ingredients, weight and longevity qualities of the pants remain the same but the coverage does not, resulting in a level of sheerness in some of our women’s black Luon bottoms that falls short of our very high standards.

“Over the past weekend we pulled all of the affected black Luon women’s bottoms from our stores, showrooms and e-commerce site, and are working with our supplier to replace the fabric and our other manufacturers to replace these key items as quickly as possible. We believe the affected items represented approximately 17% of all women’s bottoms in our stores and for the near term there will be a shortage of these styles available to our guests.”

Yuppie yogis aren’t the only ones suffering from this loss. It turns out the recall will cost Lululemon millions; nearly a fifth of their inventory is unusable. According to multiple reports, the recall is predicted to bring the company’s quarterly sales down from $350-$355 million to $333-$343 million.

Keep calm, yoga fans. Until we get our yoga pants back remember to take deep breaths. Namaste.

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Europe’s ongoing horsemeat scandal has claimed another victim as Swedish retail giant IKEA was forced to withdraw meatballs from sale in at least 15 countries.

The retailer’s announcement came after authorities in the Czech Republic found traces of horsemeat in an affected batch made in Sweden. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said horsemeat had been found in 1kg packs of meatballs, which were shipped to the Czech Republic for sale. A total of 760 kilograms of the meatballs were halted.

Meatballs from the same batch have been withdrawn from over a dozen more countries. “We take this very seriously and have withdrawn one-kilo bags of frozen meatballs from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Cyprus, Greece and Ireland,” in addition to Sweden and Czech Republic, IKEA spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said. The product had also been removed from shelves in Denmark, according to Dorte Hjorth Harder, spokeswoman for IKEA Denmark.

Gunnar Dafgard, the supplier of the meatballs located in southwestern Sweden, is currently holding crisis meetings Monday and in a written statement said that “the shipment in question has been stopped and we are investigating the situation”. The company added that it was performing its own DNA tests on the batch.

The news has come as European Union ministers have met in Brussels to discuss how to contain a spiraling scandal that broke out in January when horse DNA was found in beef burgers in Britain and Ireland.

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