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Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)

Ned O'Keeffe: ...only because it is cheap and inferior and because it can be regurgitated and sold, making massive profits for many in the food industry. In the past 12 months, we have witnessed the rise of avian flu in Asia. While we think we are exempt from that here, we should examine the migratory patterns of these birds around the world. In 12 months, they may have circled the globe due to changes in...

An Bord Bia (Amendment) Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Ned O'Keeffe: ...at party meetings and elsewhere about the country of origin. An article entitled Conditions for EU food production in the Irish Farmers' Journal on 28 February 2004 stated: "BSE in the US, Avian Flu in Thailand and the US and a refusal on the part of McDonalds, the hamburger chain, to use South American beef because of lack traceability." I have been told that the traceability of all the...

An Bord Bia (Amendment) Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Ned O'Keeffe: The Minister of State would not come down. Why not have a standard? The Sunday Times on 1 February informed us about the avian flu among Thai chicken. We know what happened the chicken in Thailand, Korea and Indonesia and about the recycling and the kind of feedstuff they got. For the first time, the most conservative body in the world, the WHO came to the forefront in trying to explain the...