Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

If I understand the report correctly, one food producer in this country, B&F Meats, was involved in mislabelling meat which was then sold on to the Czech Republic. From the looks of it, this was deliberate and there should be prosecutions. The fact that Silvercrest, owned by someone who is notorious in the beef industry as a result of the activities of his firms in the 1980s and 1990s, was misleading its major customers as to whether its products were sourced properly is also serious. It must be remembered that this factory belongs to a firm which a tribunal of inquiry was established to investigate, which the State had to step in to bail out for hundreds of millions of euro and which was involved in widespread tax evasion as well as selling substandard meat to the Iraqis. Quite incredibly, its chief executive was never done for any of this and remains in charge of one of the largest food producers in the country.

QK Cold Stores denied it had found horse DNA in its food products even though the scandal had broken.

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