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Police said the men – whose nationalities were not revealed – were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud.
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said the announcement was good for the Irish food industry.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney says the horsemeat saga risks damaging Ireland’s food sector – but has it changed the amount of beef that you eat?
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Rangeland says all products are now being DNA tested before release, after Compass Group says it found horse DNA samples in its products despite Rangeland’s assurances.
Greencore – run by Simon Coveney’s brother Patrick – says its beef was sourced from an ABP plant in Nenagh.
Some beef burgers tested positive for between 5 per cent and 30 per cent horsemeat.
Tonio Borg wants 2,500 tests on beef products, and 1,500 on horsemeat products, to ascertain the extent of the labelling problem.
Britain’s Food Standards Agency says tests have shown at least 60pc horse meat content in a beef product – and maybe more.
The plant in Monaghan had halted production after tests into a consignment of Polish beef found positive traces of horse DNA.
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, also said that ‘bad management’ at Silvercrest had let down the Irish food industry.
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Alan Reilly of the FSAI said that Polish authorities have not yet officially responded to the Irish investigation on the issue.
Supermacs has officially commented on the issue, after it emerged that Rangeland Foods supplies it with beef.
Simon Coveney will take questions on the horse DNA scandal as the Dáil debates whether to bin the promissory notes.
Rangeland Foods has temporarily shut down production after it found the equine traces in an ingredient it received from Poland.
The head of the committee, Fine Gael TD Andrew Doyle, said that they will decide tomorrow on whether ABP will be questioned on the issue.
Poland’s veterinary authority says it can’t find any sign of horse meat in five out of six suppliers tested so far.
The food company said it understood Tesco’s decision to stop sourcing meat from Silvercrest Foods.
Agriculture minister Simon Coveney says the identification of the additive responsible is a “major breakthrough”.
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130 samples have been tested in the past week, but the Department won’t release results pending a double-test.
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