Calls for accurate labelling after radioactive scare in salmon

THE country’s €90m Irish salmon farming industry yesterday urged the government to fully implement EU regulations on food labelling following a radioactive waste scare in the Irish Sea.

Statutory food agencies in Ireland and Britain insisted that the minute traces of technetium-99 which were discovered in Scottish-farmed salmon did not pose any public health threat.

Over 2,000 people are involved in the farm salmon growing sector in Ireland.