Pigmeat crisis leads to loss of trust in monitors

UNLIKE every other problem it has had to face in recent times, the Government can’t blame the credit crunch or the international economic downturn for the disaster caused by dioxin-contaminated animal feed.

However, like the credit crunch and the international economic downturn, this disaster also appears to be a case of regulatory failure.

How can it be that after the experience of BSE in Britain and dioxin-contaminated animal feed in Belgium, every single batch of animal feed was not tested before it left the factory and was fed to the animals?