All Pork home Grown pork product's where taken off the shelves of all supermarkets in Ireland yesterday.The pig's where fed with some sort of toxin's, this is bad new's for Ireland.We export a least 200m euro of pig product to Britian alone,just another in a line of total F..k up's in this country over the past few year's

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cowen-insists-pork-will-be-back-on-the-shelves-soon-1566901.html





Down here we just dig coal

Sunday evening I bet there were a fair few people checking packaging in the UK


"He lives in a world where concept is reality..."

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-12-09_109295726.html




2008-12-09 15:02
Contaminated pork risk low in Italy
Greater use of labels to indicate food origin urged

(ANSA) - Rome, December 9 - The Italian health ministry on Tuesday said the risk of consuming Irish pork contaminated with toxic dioxin was very low in Italy and warned against undue alarm.

Health Minister Maurizio Sacconi said inspectors were seeking out and impounding, when necessary, the estimated 89 shipments of contaminated Irish pork sent to Italy since September 1, the date from which Dublin has ordered the recall or destruction of the meat.

''Undersecretary (Francesca) Martini has the situation under control and health inspectors, on our instructions, have moved swiftly to identify any meat which may be suspect,'' the minister said.

''Thus we have nothing to worry about, also because we have a veterinary network which is unmatched in Europe,'' Sacconi said.

Italy earlier this year had its own dioxin scare when the toxic substance was found in milk used for making mozzarella in areas around Naples. Undersecretary Martini told the press on Tuesday that inspections of Irish pork were being carried out on a regional level and that 42 shipments had already been seized ''in less than 48 hours''.

At the same time, Martini reassured consumers that there was no cause for alarm over traditional holiday pork specialities like pigs trotters (feet) or Christmas sausage because these were made with pork processed before the September 1 date set by Dublin.

Concern over the Christmas foods had been raised by the consumer rights group Codacons.

Martini dismissed these concerns as ''false alarms''.

Dioxin levels found in Irish pork were said to be as much as 100 times the accepted levels. However, experts pointed out that even at these levels vast amounts would have to be consumed over a long period of time to create any cancer risk.

The toxic substance was said to have originated in feed given to herds in Ireland and northern Ireland.

The contaminated feed is reported to have also been given to several cattle herds in Ireland and Britain but these have already been identified.

Experts are less concerned because about this because not only do pigs and cows have different eating habits, but pigs are subject to intensive indoor or closed-area raising, while cows are allowed graze.

This latest European food scare is sure to deal a major blow to the Irish livestock industry, with as many as 100,000 pigs set to be culled and thousands of works expected to be laid off.

The contamination is believed to have originated from the industrial oil used in a machine which produced the feed from recycled animal products at a specific plant in Ireland. FARMERS'UNION WANTS ORIGIN LABELING FOR ALL MEATS. The Italian farmers' union Coldiretti has called on the European Commission to impose on pork the same rules on indicating origin that are applied on beef and poultry products. In view of this latest food safety crisis, Coldiretti urged the European Union to make it obligatory for all meats to carry labels which indicate which country the animal was raised in and in which the meat was processed. At present this practice is only needed for beef and poultry and was adopted following the mad cow and bird flu scares. Aside from pork, no such labeling is currently needed for rabbit or sheep meat either. According to Coldiretti, all food products, animal as well as vegetable, should have labels to inform consumers of the product's origin and quality. The farmers' union backed this up by citing a recent poll which showed that 98% of consumers wanted such information to be obligatory on both a national and EU level. Coldiretti has already successfully lobbied to have similar labeling for not only beef and poultry products but also for fresh vegetables, eggs, honey, fresh milk and, as of January 1 of this year, processed and packaged tomatoes. Nevertheless, the union observed, 50% of the most common food products consumers buy still do not need to indicate on their labels their origin or quality



Melissa Satta