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Thu 03 Mar 2006Meat industry says report underestimates scale of crisis
The Irish meat industry claimed yesterday that the economic report predicting €200 million losses annually as a result of a new world trade agreement had seriously underestimated the impact on the Irish beef sector.
Cormac Healy of Meat Industry Ireland, which represents most meat factories, said the Teagasc/Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute prediction models did not take into account that the real threat to the Irish beef sector would be the level of high-value steak cuts coming into the EU market.
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