All pork products made and sold in the Irish Republic since September have been recalled over fears they are contaminated with a toxic substance. The action was taken after dioxins were found in slaughtered pigs thought to have eaten contaminated feed.
Consumers and retailers in the Irish Republic have been warned to destroy all Irish pork and bacon products bought since 1 September as a precaution.
The substance believed to have contaminated the pig feed was PCB – polychlorinated bi-phenyls – a group of man-made chemicals formerly used in industry, but banned in the Irish Republic since 1979.
The Irish minister for agriculture, Brendan Smith, said the problem was confined to 47 farms…This is the total number of farms identified as having received possible contaminated animal feed. There is only one feed supplier involved.”
They called on retailers, the hospitality sector and the pig processing sector to withdraw all pork products from their stock. The government’s medical officer, Tony Holohan, also advised people not to consume or purchase any pork products and to dispose of any they came across.
Pretty impressive to see such a scorched earth policy on food safety.
a MANMADE CHEMICAL, AND where in hell DO YOU THINK THEY DUMPED IT??
Can we point to this, and TELL those that DUMPED IN ARAZONA, to clean up the mess?? NOT.
yep, a Man made chemical…and WHERE do you think they DUMPED IT…
Can you think if we can use this in the USA, as in ARAZONA??? and get them to cleanup ANYTHING??
Eideard said, “Pretty impressive to see such a scorched earth policy on food safety.”
No. Anything sold in Sep has probably been consumed. Pretty pathetic is what it is.
Just in time for Xmas too.
I understand that pretty much all meat and stuff in the US is irradiated to kill any nasty bugs and stuff, that’s all well and good, but where the hell are these bugs coming from in the first place?
Are the animals killed and butchered in such unsanitary conditions that being contaminated with disease-causing microorganisms is a matter of course?? If so, OMG!!
Why does Eideard hate Ireland?
Zybch: RTFA? This is nothing to do with bugs. It’s contamination with dioxin, a man-made chemical.
Funny to see the nutballs still haven’t learned to RTFA.
Nah! Not worth explaining to dweebs like #’s 3&4. #5? A non sequitur in action.
#3 is hilarious, though. Like George Bush the Elder, he must have someone do his shopping for him and has never read a label.
very nice & interesting . good luck .
The floor of Lake Michigan off the coast of Waukegan, Illinois had PCB waste dumped on it by a motorboat engine plant for decades. They’ve spent big bucks on and off over the past 25 years trying to clean it up. Nasty stuff that just sits there.
Good thing it wasn’t the potatoes that were affected!
/first class to hell
//aisle seat 😐
Just listening to No Agenda, where Adam predicted there would be some kind of food-related crisis. A few hours later… kerching!
#6, where do I say that it was a bug rather than a man made thingy? Anyone with 1/2 a brain would have understood that I was referring to the generally low health standards in general, and specifically the US where not a month goes by without some preventable food related contamination (lead, hamburgers being recalled etc) seems to occur, for fucks sake I even said “in the US”, I think you’d better take remedial english again, the 2nd time is the charm.
Scorched earth is right – and air and water too. Before I start, I just heard that the government won’t tell the Irish people what pig farms are involved in the PCB contamination!
Check out the Irish tv show “Prime Time” about 3 years ago (they are like our “60 Minutes”) – they did a show (I have a copy) about how the Standish Sawmill had created another Love Canal _ Chromium 6, arsenic and copper contaminated land, aquifer and bordering river . Located on the border of Co. Tipperary and Co. Offaly, owned by the Standish brothers, local thugs of the highest order – they have all the local politicians in their pockets – they make wooden highway fence posts and sell to town councils and highway departments – offer big discounts for cash payments.Too much corruption in Ireland – the local farmers created a group to fight the Standish’s pollution – they have brought it to court 39 times … always put off – it is now in the EU court. Many conflicts of interest in Irish government… starting at the top – the Minister of the Environment also oversees commercial development! The EPA manager in Co. Cork is an owner of a company who builds the incinerators that are going up all over the country. The Minister did not stop the new motorway dig right through the sacred Mound of Tara either. Worst of all, the same Prime Time program also told of the 6 million euros paid to the developer for a waste treatment plant to be built during the expansion of the Shannon Airport several years ago … it was never built! The camera shows the trap door on the tarmac where all the blue water from the airliner’s toilets is still dumped – right into the Shannon River! Think about that the next time you have smoked Irish salmon – and sadly, Prime Time has never done a follow up story about either – and the last one … has any one who flew into Shannon during 2007 and the first half of 2008 ever seen any “don’t drink the water” warning signs in the airport? There was a ban during this time for Enis, Galway and all of Co. Galway – even to bathing babies in bottled water! It was regularly reported in the papers but officials didn’t want to scare away the tourists – they never knew – we asked all Americans who visited Leap Castle that came from Galway – no one knew … now, I’ll finish with the latest news I just heard today from my friends in Ireland … now they’ve found bottled water to be contaminated too!
I still love Ireland and have done much good for the Irish over the past 20 years – but you’re dealing with a people who have carried grudges for 400 years! And nobody wants their handouts to stop and if you try to expose them … you may be in danger. So very sad …
Respectfully submitted in the hopes of changein Ireland, the OrbMaster
#12 – Z-Bitch
>>where do I say that it was a bug rather than
>>a man made thingy? Anyone with 1/2 a brain >>would have understood that I was referring
>>to blah blah blah blah
Uhhhh….in your post?? The one where you mentioned bugs twice, and disease-causing microorganisms once, plus a reference to unsanitary conditions To wit:
“I understand that pretty much all meat and stuff in the US is irradiated to kill any nasty bugs and stuff, that’s all well and good, but where the hell are these bugs coming from in the first place?
Are the animals killed and butchered in such unsanitary conditions that being contaminated with disease-causing microorganisms is a matter of course?? If so, OMG!!”
I guess us less-than-1/2-brainers didn’t realize that by “bugs” and “disease-causing microorganisms”, you were really referring to inorganic contaminents like lead, and small organic molecules like dioxin. Huh.
-found a simple text copy of Kissinger’s 1974 NSSM 200 study when he was with the NSC.
(it’s long. -after all it is a gov study.)
http://wlym.com/text/NSSM200.htm
if wasnt real..i’d say i’ma real fruit loop..but after googling NSSM200, well, maybe there is something to all the NWO alarms..i mean hey..when have you *ever* seen a US presidential candidate
campaign all across the f’n globe..and leave a trail of obamazombies behind..?
-esp an uncle tom brand… *ducks*
-eh, kookoo for cocopuffs, i guess.
-s
Very annoying. I bought a load of expensive sausages on Saturday. Now I’ve got to dump them. Hard times for students!
Think I’ll just eat em anyway. This stuffs been in our foodsupply since at least September. Could be for years.
You got it all wrong, Obama is in with the -other- Svengali-like puppet master, Brzezinski.