Food group to hire new personnel

ABP Food Group will appoint a new management team at its Silvercrest burger plant in Monaghan, which had shut temporarily after being at the centre of the horse meat contamination controversy.

Responsibility for the business has transferred to ABP Ireland (the Irish chilled beef division) from the convenience foods division, and the sister business in the UK, Dalepak Foods, where equine DNA was also found in burgers, will come under the immediate control of ABP UK (the British chilled beef business).

ABP Food Group has also announced independent auditing of all its third party suppliers, and has already started to implement a new DNA testing regime over and above any legal requirements, in addition to existing food safety testing,