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Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice on the agenda
EU and Irish context to upcoming event remain somewhat hostile to stated aims […]
EU and Irish context to upcoming event remain somewhat hostile to stated aims […]
Insight into water consumption […]
Anti-GM crop website […]
Following vote in Parliament last week, Council agrees on their standpoint […]
UK and Germany not in favour of temporary ban, despite strong evidence on disastrous impact […]
In light of this week’s vote on the CAP, it’s worth having a closer look at the role of cash […]
Press releases and comments start to flood in following first assesment of vote […]
ARC2020 Press Release for immediate release […]
Latest news […]
Citizens across Europe meet with their MEPs to ask how they will vote on CAP reform in March […]
Plight of bees finally being taken seriously by European authorities? […]
Alyn Smith’s analyse of the CAP budget for Scotland. […]
German PR from BÖLW regarding A. Merkel’s position on agriculture budget […]
Wallonia’s capital Namur is trying to force supermarkets to redistribute unsold food […]
The source of the horsemeat contamination of Irish hamburgers was finally pinpointed, with raw ingredients from Poland identified as the culprit. Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has ordered close scrutiny of the Silvercrest plant, where equine DNA was found in burgers, for six months. There were three more positive tests found in readings of 7 per cent, 3.6 per cent and 1.2 per cent in three individual burger samples taken this month. All thee burgers contained products sourced from a company in Poland which has been supplying raw materials to Silvercrest in the past year. Irish Department of Agriculture then carried out further tests on the actual raw material, which showed significant levels of equine DNA – 4.1 per cent. Late last night, the results of further tests came through. All were positive for equine DNA – with even higher results than the 4.1 per cent, the greatest being over 20 per cent. The same Polish food component was responsible for the 29.5 per cent reading of equine DNA contained in one Tesco burger tested […]
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