The shadow boxing is over. IFOAM (the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) EU, as recently as September, at their eighth organic congress, were still concerned, but not overtly, about the new European Commission organic regulation proposal.

Consumer confidence in meat products will be boosted by the Department of Agriculture’s decision to establish a central, equine database on the Animal Identification and Movement (AIM) system, which contains data on cattle, sheep and pigs.