Too trusting

We seem to be approaching the point where it will be easier to identify the meat plants that have not been embroiled in the horsemeat fraud than it will be to list those that have.

Yesterday the Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued a revised protocols for establishing the authenticity of foods and gardaí added a Tipperary meat plant which had been licensed to handle horsemeat to the list of those who might have questions to answer in the saga.

The FSAI protocols require that “all food... satisfy the requirements of food law, that labelling, advertising, and presentation of food must not mislead consumers, and that food business operators with samples testing positive for horsemeat at or above 1% must inform the FSAI immediately”.