Ireland pays out 130m in pork dioxin scare
13/03/2012 Pigs
More than �130 million has been paid by the Irish government to the pork industry in compensation for the dioxin contamination scare of 2008.The Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts, which was given the figure, was also told that one-third of the cost of Garda compensation cases in the past two years went on legal fees.
In December 2008 the Food Safety Authority of Ireland ordered the recall of all Irish pork products slaughtered since the previous September.
The recall stemmed from the discovery that animal feed which could contain unacceptable levels of dioxin had been used on farms supplying pigs to abattoirs that produced 90% of Irish pork output.
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