Department and gardaí probe beef exports
The department asked gardaí to investigate certain practices in the unnamed plant, which has been suspended indefinitely from supplying beef to Russia. It also informed the European Commission.
It is understood the probe is focusing on breaches involving the specification of beef from male animals as lower priced meat from cows. Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan, speaking with Irish agricultural journalists in Paris yesterday, said during the past number of years there had been a huge change in the attitude within the farming community and in the processing industry.
