IFA urges consumers to buy milk with National Dairy Council’s mark

The IFA is urging consumers to buy only milk which carries the National Dairy Council’s NDC mark to protect local jobs.

The IFA’s national liquid milk committee chairman, Teddy Cashman, said the NDC mark was the only fully audited labelling scheme in place which guaranteed consumers that the milk bearing it was both produced and processed in Ireland, supporting local jobs and the local economy.

The IFA found huge variations in the levels of locally sourced milk for sale on random countrywide visits to the seven main multiple retailers. Tesco and SuperValu fared best, with NDC-marked milk in all pack sizes of branded or private label non-speciality milk. The IFA found Marks && Spencer carried non NDC-marked product.