Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Dairy Industry: Bord Bia, ICOS and Positive Farmers
2:00 pm
Michael McNamara (Clare, Labour)
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Is there a certain distrust of unpasteurised cheeses in Ireland, given the greater degree of risk from such cheese, but equally is there is a huge market in unpasteurised cheese in other countries? France has probably the largest market and has both an internal and export market for its cheese. Some of these unpasteurised French cheeses are readily for sale in Irish supermarkets. These French products are subjected to less stringent testing than Irish unpasteurised cheese.