Lack of facilities led to late contamination detection, admits minister

The Minister for Food Trevor Sargent has admitted that the presence of PCBs in Irish pig meat would have been confirmed sooner if facilities to detect dioxins were available in Ireland.

Speaking on RTÉ radio today, the Green Party Minister said that the detection of PCB would have been quicker if we had dioxin monitoring facilities in Ireland, and confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the source of the problem.