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by Dave Keating | December 8, 2008 at 05:17 am
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Tainted pig feed has caused fears that pork raised in Ireland could be contaminated. It is feared that the food supply for the pigs could have been tainted with Dioxin. At the same time, around 900 workers at the pig-meat factories across Ireland have been laid off today.
People should not eat Irish pork until there has been a full investigation into tainted pig feed, the Food Standards Agency has said.
Nine premises in NI and 47 in the Irish Republic were supplied with the same feed being linked to the contamination.
The source is thought to have been feed tainted with oil from a County Carlow firm which recycles food in pig meal.
Gerry McCurdy from the FSA said there was no immediate risk to health in Northern Ireland.
The Ulster Farmers Union has stressed that no contaminated pork has been found in Northern Ireland yet.
"Hopefully there will be no contamination potentially in Northern Ireland and we will be able to get back to using Northern Ireland pork and pork producers very quickly," UFU president Graham Furey said.
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at 17:21 on December 8th, 2008
Its really weird the only pork products you can buy in Dublin this week are imported ones so many shelves are empty. It reminds me of the Foot and Mouth scare a few years back. Only 47 farms are affected but they are being cautious. These particular pigs in the photos are from a farm in Northern Ireland. Jonny Pardoe
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