The Irish Farmers' Association has blown the whistle on the Irish breakfast, dubbing it a fraud - especially if eaten in a Dublin hotel.
According to the organisation, the rashers and eggs served in Dublin hotels are not Irish but imported from other EU countries, the catering trade having been lost to Irish pig producers.
Irish companies, said the IFA president, Mr Tom Parlon, were importing the equivalent of 15,000 pigs each week, which are packaged and sold on.
He produced five different product lines which he said were packaged in this State and attempted to give the impression to the consumer that the contents were Irish.
In two cases the pigmeat was imported from the Netherlands and in another other two the product came from the UK.
Examination of a packet of Irish Stew also showed that the meat had been produced in the Netherlands.
"The consumer is being misled into believing that some of these products are Irish because of the inadequate and sometimes misleading information," said Mr Parlon.
"The truth is that Irish consumers want to buy and support Irish produce and we want to ensure that they can do that without being hindered.
"Just because the product has been handled by an Irish company does not necessarily mean that it is Irish," he said.
Mr Parlon said his wife, as a result of inadequate labelling, had recently purchased a product she thought was Irish but was not.
He said there appeared to be a deliberate attempt by some companies to conceal the country of origin of the products they were selling.
He said the companies were within their rights to import food from abroad but the labelling of food would have to be tightened.
He added that some of the companies had been unable to source pigmeat in Ireland for their operations because the large processors in the Republic would not sell to them.
The end result was that Irish pig producers who were currently facing losses of £30 for every pig they produced were unable to service the home market.
He said the pigmeat catering trade in Ireland, especially in Dublin, was now almost exclusively serviced with imported food and that had been the case since the introduction of the single market.
Mr Parlon called on the Government to amend the legislation on packaging and to crack down on inaccurate labelling so Irish consumers and producers get a fair deal.