Salmonella scare plant to close for sterilisation

THE meat plant at the centre of a salmonella scare is to shut down all production to allow the premises to be sterilised.

Dawn Farm Foods, which employs 500 workers, has had one production line out of action for two weeks due to the investigation into the outbreak, but said last night it was voluntarily suspending all operations to bring in expert cleaning consultants.

The company said the cleaning would be of “pharmaceutical grade” and would take up to a week to complete with production recommencing on a phased basis.