Scheme aims to find top butchers

THE country’s best butchers are to be awarded Michelin star-style stamps under an initiative aimed at raising standards in the industry.

Butchers will be awarded certificates to become “certified craft members”, in a scheme endorsed by Bord Bia and the Food Safety Authority.

The move, to be unveiled by the Association of Craft Butchers of Ireland later this month, will see secret shoppers calling into the country’s 500 craft butchers.