Written answers

Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Department of Agriculture and Food

Food Industry

8:00 pm

Photo of John DeasyJohn Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 387: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that certain Irish cheese brands which are no longer being produced here have been replaced with an import product and are continuing to be marketed as though they were Irish made when in actual fact it is produced in another country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29895/07]

Photo of Mary CoughlanMary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The EU dairy hygiene regulations set down provisions for food business operators to ensure that products of animal origin have an identification mark applied to them. Under those regulations the identification mark must indicate the country in which the establishment which performed the final processing, even if this final processing is packaging, is located. The regulations also prescribe the form this identification mark must take and the country in which the last process took place must be shown using the letters for that country as prescribed in the regulations. The development and marketing of brands is a matter for the commercial companies that own them.

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