Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Burger Content Investigations: Discussion

5:40 pm

Professor Alan Reilly:

Nothing has emerged from that investigation. The company used some of the Dutch product that we identified as containing low or trace levels of equine DNA. That was the reason for the findings in regard to it. The Food Standards Agency is more concerned about pork in products that are specifically marketed to religious groups in the UK.