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Thu 01 Jan 2009Food safety body took 'correct' action to manage dioxin crisis
THE MEASURES taken by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in managing the dioxin scare were “appropriate, proportionate and correct”, its deputy chief executive, Alan Reilly, said yesterday.
He told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture that had the recall of pork products not been ordered, Ireland could have ended up like Belgium in 1999 when all foods of animal origin were removed for six months by the EU. He confirmed the source of the contamination was transformer oil and not plastic wrappers being left on bread and burned into the feed.
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