Ireland launches investigation on diseased meat introduced in food chain
Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has launched an investigation after false records were found at a knockery that handle sick or fallen animals and suspicion was raised about meat being sold on the black market or through door-to-door sales, informs The Independent.
Rumours say that large quantities of meat were sold without being sprayed to identify it as being from a fallen animal and the Department of Agriculture is trying to trace all the meat processed at this facility.
Unlike meat factories, Ireland's knockeries are allowed to operate without direct supervision from a State vet.
A Food Safety Authority report from last year raised concerns about the standards in some of this units claiming that there were no procedures in place to verify that animals did not die as a result of a disease that could transfer to humans or animals.
The Department of Agriculture confirmed that no audits of the knackeries by the European Commission or any other European Agency have taken place over the last number of years.
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