Lack of pork-scare compensation could cost 400 jobs in North

Up to 400 jobs could be under threat if pork producers are not compensated for the contaminated feed scare, one of the North’s largest companies claimed today.

Cookstown Meats is leading calls for a £12.5m (€13.78m) compensation package across the industry after its goods were temporarily stripped from supermarket shelves at the height of the alert.