Irish meat products not affected by newspaper probe

IRISH products have escaped unscathed in a newspaper investigation of imported meat in Britain.

According to The Guardian, many bacon, pork and poultry products come from nations with lower animal welfare standards than Britain.

It claimed that more than half of the bacon sold in Britain comes from the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Italy where farmers can keep sows in smaller pens and for longer periods, and 43% of other pork products come from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, where the same poorer conditions on pig farms are allowed.