A growing awareness of Irish food and beverage products among buyers and consumers in China is set for a boost.

Hundreds more jobs have been lost in the pig-meat processing industry this morning as a result of the dioxin scare that has seen Irish pork withdrawn from shops worldwide.

AS OUR world becomes more urbanised, more industrialised and ever more populated it is inevitable that we will have regular and worrying food scares.

A HUGE investment programme will create up to 120 new jobs at a pigmeat processing plant in Edenderry, Co Offaly and secures 250 others that were put at risk following a fire at the plant last year.

THE owners of the pigmeat business formerly owned by Glanbia must return a price increase to pig producers immediately, according to the Irish Farmers Association.