IFA calls for code of practice to regulate retail food sector
IFA president Padraig Walshe said a 2007 report by the Department of Food Business and Development in UCC, identified a huge and widening discrepancy between producer and retail prices. As a result, producers were being forced to produce below the cost of production.
“If this is not addressed, by way of a code of practice, we will end up with less food produced within Europe and thereby more dependent on unregulated imports,” he said.
