Huge oversight in food content checks

Food producers are not required, under existing regulations, to check the content of what they add to burgers, it has emerged.

As the Department of Agriculture awaits results of further tests on burgers from the ABP Food Group, which is at the centre of the latest scandal, Meat Industry Ireland admitted there are huge gaps in the regulation system.

ABP Food Group, one of Europe’s biggest suppliers and processors, is being investigated by health and agriculture authorities here and in the UK.