Latest update: 11/12/2008 

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Irish pork back on sale
Irish pork back on sale
The Irish government has allowed processors to begin selling pork sourced from safe farms after the discovery of dioxin in slaughtered pigs led to the withdrawal of the country's entire pig-meat production last Saturday.

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AFP - Irish pork products can go back on sale, so long as processors can prove the meat was not from herds believed to be contaminated by dioxins, the agriculture ministry in Dublin said Wednesday.
  
In a statement, it said Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Brendan Smith "today confirmed that all the necessary controls are now in place to enable the restoration of supplies of Irish pork and bacon to consumers".
  
If a processor could prove that "individual consignments of pig meat or pig-meat products were entirely derived from pigs which did not come from any of the restricted pig herds, then these consignments can be released onto the market".
  

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