FIVE men have been arrested as part of a cross-border investigation into a contamination scare in the pork industry which cost pig producers here an estimated €120 million.

THE High Court has reserved its decision on whether to approve a scheme of arrangement between a company alleged to have supplied animal feed containing harmful dioxins and those suing it arising out of the contamination.

The High Court has reserved its decision on whether to approve a scheme of arrangement between a Co Wexford company alleged to have supplied animal feed containing harmful dioxins and those suing it arising out of the contamination.

A COMPANY is being sued for €1.9 million in damages over allegedly selling animal feed containing dioxins to a Co Tyrone-based farmer whose cattle herd later had to be destroyed.