Organic shop a ‘disgrace to market’

A SHOPOWNER convicted of labelling chicken as organic when it was not has been accused of disgracing his fellow traders in Cork’s English Market.

Marc O’Mahony, trading as the Organic Shop in the market, was fined €2,000 plus €400 costs for displaying chicken pieces under a sign which said “Organic Shop” when the chicken was found not to be organic, on December 13, 2004.

During the court hearing, the Department of Agriculture, whose inspection lead to the court hearing, told how Mr O’Mahony explained to its inspector that when he could not secure an organic product he would, in an exceptional case, get a non-organic one.