All Irish pork recalled in dioxin scare

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Sunday Times

ALL products produced from pigs slaughtered in Ireland were recalled last night due to a dioxins scare.

Consumers were warned not to eat Irish pork and bacon as an investigation was launched into the discovery of the toxic substances.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) and the government made the announcement after pork products on several farms were found to have had between 80 and 200 times more dioxins than the safety limit.

The recall affects all pork produced since September 1.The recall also affects Irish exports of pork to other European countries. Britain, Germany, France and Italy all import significant quantities, while America and Korea are also buyers.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5299511.ece

---

A €400m-a-year industry - in a country of about 4 million people, that's quite large.

[TomInTib]

1. A dollar says the feed was from China. nt

[hedgehog]

2. So how did the dioxin get into the feed in the first place?

[kestrel91316]

3. Somebody got a bright idea for how to dispose of hazardous waste,

just like the melamine, is my guess.

I agree with Tom. Look to China for answers.

[KT2000]

6. Might be closer to home

Some states allow hazardous waste to be put into fertilizer that is applied to fields.
Washington had terrible losses of crops and sterilized farmland from just such products (Qunicy, WA). The state reponse was to establish limits for the hazardous waste that is allowed in fertilizer.

[silverojo]

5. The Chinese have a special talent for letting toxins get into food

"Ancient Chinese secret!" :mad:

[Stargazer99]

4. Don't you wonder what else has bad stuff in it?

When I was a kid you never heard of this stuff..but then again imported food was labeled as such and where it came from. Corporate America cannot make as much money if they were forced to quit killing and making us sick with their "FDA approved" stuff.

[Tutonic]

7. Heard Karl Rove was being shipped back to Ireland tonight.

[kirby]

8. Non-dioxon...Wrong headline?

"It follows confirmation that non-dioxin PCBs, which are organic pollutants, have been found in animal feed and pork samples."

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/recall-of-all-pork-in-public-health-alert-1566236.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Strange - others say it's dioxins

Reuters: http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL745035920081207
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7769391.stm
RTE: http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1206/porkrecallinfo.html

Ah - from the RTE link - maybe your report was from the early stages of detection:

How were the dioxins found?

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) discovered the presence of marker PCBs, indicative of dioxin contamination, in pork fat during routine monitoring of the food chain for a range of contaminants. Samples were sent to a laboratory in the UK for further analysis to determine if there were dioxins present. Results have confirmed that dioxins were present in the samples.

[humus]

10. Praise ignorance

The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Sunday, March 2, 2003. Love the quick profit, the annual raise... By <#WendellBerry>.
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.


So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.


Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.


Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?


Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.


http://www.brtom.org/wb/berry.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Cause: machine oil contaminated feed

Oil that ended up in animal feed could force Ireland to destroy 100,000 pigs, food safety officials said Monday as the European Union advised that nations did not need to ban Irish pork imports.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has traced the problem to machine oil added to foodstuffs at one small animal-food maker in southeast Ireland. The maker, Millstream Power Recycling Ltd., supplied the oil-tainted feed to 10 pig farms in the Republic of Ireland and nine others in the British territory of Northern Ireland.
...
Ireland's national police force, the Garda Siochana, said its detectives were involved in trying to identify what went wrong in the production, distribution and screening of feed produced by Millstream — and criminal charges were a possibility.

The company itself said the oil appeared to have come from a machine used to dry out-of-date bread and dough being converted into a breadcrumb mix. "Millstream will be carrying out a full investigation to establish how the company's strict health and safety procedures and the high quality standards could possibly have been breached," it said in a statement.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hn8dQ7aGiM9koU3wZO58_ZWih4VAD94UHHOO0