Trust is key to recipe for food success

Trust has become a key ingredient in food production in Ireland, according to the Irish Food Writers’ Guild.

“If we can’t have full faith in what is on the label, the reputation of the food sector in Ireland could be seriously jeopardised,” said IFWG chairperson Myles McWeeney at the guild’s annual food awards in Dublin yesterday.

Speaking in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, Mr McWeeney said: “Today is a celebration of the finest Irish food and wonderful artisan pro-ducers. However, as a food writers’ guild, we have a duty to ack-nowledge recent issues relating to the con-tamination of processed meat products, and we urge immediate action on labelling and transparency, not just in Ireland but right across the EU.