Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion
Mr. Jim O'Toole:
I did not answer the final part of the Chair's question on the differentiation of imported product versus quality assured product coming through our factories. We have a very strict process of traceability so that only lambs coming from quality assured farms are labelled and traced as quality assured. The imported product that comes from Britain through Northern Ireland does not get categorised in this way. There are strict protocols.