Irish pork being recalled .....
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CastleMouse
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There was a special news bulletin for this on 2FM on Saturday night just after 8pm. Around 50% of pork products for sale in the UK are from Ireland so they will certainly be asking people in the UK to destroy any pork products which they have bought since September 1st.
Salcey
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we do not believe there is significant risk to UK consumers as adverse health effects from eating the affected products are only likely if people are exposed to relatively high levels
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so by defination there is a risk to health if [ QUOTE ]
200 times more dioxins than the recognised safety limit.
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Any toxin contamination is very bad IMO
we do not believe there is significant risk to UK consumers as adverse health effects from eating the affected products are only likely if people are exposed to relatively high levels
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so by defination there is a risk to health if [ QUOTE ]
200 times more dioxins than the recognised safety limit.
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Any toxin contamination is very bad IMO
Lobelia_Overhill
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I had a ham for Sunday as well
What am I supposed to do with it now, I don't want to throw a lump of raw meat in the bin!
What am I supposed to do with it now, I don't want to throw a lump of raw meat in the bin!
CastleMouse
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The toxin is only dangerous if you've been exposed to it for a very long time.
CastleMouse
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From the Irish Times...
INVESTIGATION: THE USE of oil at a recycling plant near Bunclody, Co Wexford, to recycle unused food into pig rations, is at the centre of the investigation into the source of contaminated pork products.
Stale bread, out-of-date biscuits, chocolate and dough from feed plants are heated and turned into food for animals at a number of plants in the country and it was during this process something went wrong.
The investigation into the source of Irelands largest food scare since BSE began with the routine sampling of a pig carcass on September 19th.
However, it was weeks later, on November 26th, when the routine sample showed up a high level of dioxin-like PCBs. The pig was traced back to its farm of origin and then the food it had eaten was sampled. These too showed contamination.
This led to an inspection of all the farms which had been supplied by the same source 10 pig farms and 38 beef farms. Samples were sent to a laboratory capable of identifying individual toxins and the preliminary reports back from the UK sparked the withdrawal of all pork products.
Dutch health authorities had also contacted Irish officials after they found high levels of PCBs in four carcasses of pigs from Ireland, while there were also reports of contaminated pig samples from France and Belgium.
The authorities believe they have the problem ringfenced and no more samples of what have been described as the dirty dozen really harmful dioxins will emerge.
The investigation has focused on the food-recycling facility which supplied the animal feed. In particular, it is looking at the use of oil in the recycling process at the plant, Millstream Recycling, near Bunclody on the Carlow/Wexford border.
In a statement the company confirmed it had been working with the Department of Agriculture and Food officials to identify the source of PCBs found in pig meal in a number of farms in Ireland.
Accepting the need for a recall, Millstream will be carrying out a full investigation to establish how the companys strict health and safety procedures and the high quality standards could possibly have been breached, said the statement.
In the meantime, Millstream will continue to work with the Department of Agriculture andFood to ensure that any product sold to the pig industry in recent weeks is identified and recalled, it added.
The companys co-operation was confirmed by the chief veterinary officer Paddy Rogan.
While the oil taken from the recycling plant has yet to be analysed, experts working on the case believe fumes from the drier may have caused the problems.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland said in a statement The use of a contaminated ingredient added to pork feed is identified as the source of the contamination.
It is now considered that the profile of dioxins found is similar to those found in electronic transformer oils, the statement continued.
None of the thousands of pigs involved in the lockdown of the pig farms have been slaughtered yet and it will be late tomorrow before results of tests on samples from cattle will be known.
INVESTIGATION: THE USE of oil at a recycling plant near Bunclody, Co Wexford, to recycle unused food into pig rations, is at the centre of the investigation into the source of contaminated pork products.
Stale bread, out-of-date biscuits, chocolate and dough from feed plants are heated and turned into food for animals at a number of plants in the country and it was during this process something went wrong.
The investigation into the source of Irelands largest food scare since BSE began with the routine sampling of a pig carcass on September 19th.
However, it was weeks later, on November 26th, when the routine sample showed up a high level of dioxin-like PCBs. The pig was traced back to its farm of origin and then the food it had eaten was sampled. These too showed contamination.
This led to an inspection of all the farms which had been supplied by the same source 10 pig farms and 38 beef farms. Samples were sent to a laboratory capable of identifying individual toxins and the preliminary reports back from the UK sparked the withdrawal of all pork products.
Dutch health authorities had also contacted Irish officials after they found high levels of PCBs in four carcasses of pigs from Ireland, while there were also reports of contaminated pig samples from France and Belgium.
The authorities believe they have the problem ringfenced and no more samples of what have been described as the dirty dozen really harmful dioxins will emerge.
The investigation has focused on the food-recycling facility which supplied the animal feed. In particular, it is looking at the use of oil in the recycling process at the plant, Millstream Recycling, near Bunclody on the Carlow/Wexford border.
In a statement the company confirmed it had been working with the Department of Agriculture and Food officials to identify the source of PCBs found in pig meal in a number of farms in Ireland.
Accepting the need for a recall, Millstream will be carrying out a full investigation to establish how the companys strict health and safety procedures and the high quality standards could possibly have been breached, said the statement.
In the meantime, Millstream will continue to work with the Department of Agriculture andFood to ensure that any product sold to the pig industry in recent weeks is identified and recalled, it added.
The companys co-operation was confirmed by the chief veterinary officer Paddy Rogan.
While the oil taken from the recycling plant has yet to be analysed, experts working on the case believe fumes from the drier may have caused the problems.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland said in a statement The use of a contaminated ingredient added to pork feed is identified as the source of the contamination.
It is now considered that the profile of dioxins found is similar to those found in electronic transformer oils, the statement continued.
None of the thousands of pigs involved in the lockdown of the pig farms have been slaughtered yet and it will be late tomorrow before results of tests on samples from cattle will be known.
CastleMouse
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RTE's Comprehensive Guide on the Recall - http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1206/porkrecallinfo.html
Zebedee
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Hey ho....OH & I had Pork Fillet last week. All it said on the label was British....I'm not losing any sleep over it though !!
Thistle
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That's why I always try to buy British meat
druid
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PMSL are you really naive enough to think something similar couldn't happen in the UK?
That's why I always try to buy British meat
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PMSL are you really naive enough to think something similar couldn't happen in the UK?
CorvusCorax
Deary me...
I was congratulating myself today on not having eaten any pork for ages.
Then I remembered the fry-up on Saturday morning, the pizza on Friday night, the sausage roll on Thursday...
Weren't the experts telling us months ago that processed meats like sausage and bacon give you cancer anyway?!
The pig farming industry in this country is already on its' knees - prepare to buy all your pork from the continent, where the welfare situation makes our intensive farms look like a porcine version of the Hilton.
Then I remembered the fry-up on Saturday morning, the pizza on Friday night, the sausage roll on Thursday...
Weren't the experts telling us months ago that processed meats like sausage and bacon give you cancer anyway?!
The pig farming industry in this country is already on its' knees - prepare to buy all your pork from the continent, where the welfare situation makes our intensive farms look like a porcine version of the Hilton.
Daffodil
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I'll be reduced to sharing my horse's feed before long at this rate! Now they're including beef in this ban, and we recently had a scare over salmon, and they don't seem to know where any of it really comes from
What the.......... am I supposed to feed anyone on???????
What the.......... am I supposed to feed anyone on???????
Sooty
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That's why I always try to buy British meat
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If it's packed in the UK, it can be labelled as British.
That's why I always try to buy British meat
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If it's packed in the UK, it can be labelled as British.
Sooty
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I have heard that what went wrong was that the bread etc. was left in the plastic packaging! If you feed pigs crap, you end up eating crap...
CorvusCorax
Deary me...
I thought oil not intended for the food chain was either used to mix the meal or lubricate the machinery mixing it?
If it is shipped in from elsewhere and cured in the UK, meat can also be labelled as British/UK
If it is shipped in from elsewhere and cured in the UK, meat can also be labelled as British/UK
Aru
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Seemingly it was an oil they were using in the plant and there was a problem with some of the machinery contaminating the food but its also unoffically come out that they also were not removing the plastic coverings from bread and confectionary before it was processed..the department inspectors who checked out this place last are going to be facing some hard questions..meanwhile the largest meat processing plants have shut down and so far at least 900 people have lost their jobs there and as the plants arent taking in fresh pigs there are still thousands been produced each week with no where to go...and thats just with the pigs the results about the cattle yet but at least all irish beef can be traced unlike our pork..ironically enough dioxins arent actually harmful unless theve accumulated in the body over a long term so the meat is "safe" to eat its just illegal to sell because chemicals arent allowed into the food chain..