Irish pork recalled

absoluteutopia

MWH wrote: »

Waitrose have withdrawn Paul Rankin sausages

I wouldnt worry too much about his sausages, so little pork that a veggie could eat them

Colin_Kee

I wander if the FSA have considered removing Cigarettes From the Shelves of shops.. I hear they have chemicals & Toxins in them and they are bad for you!!

ballyblack

Probably more dioxins in one cigarette than an whole pig!!!

cifpower

I bought some Denny ham on Saturday and I'll be !!!!!!ed if I'm throwing it out

jackieb

ballyblack wrote: »

Probably more dioxins in one cigarette than an whole pig!!!

I read that eating some of the affected pork is the same as smoking 2 cigarettes in your whole lifetime. Depends on how much pork you eat, mind you.

happymummy24-7

Thanks for all your replys everyone....its interesting to hear peoples opinions.
It was on Nolan this morning and it was just the same-no information for anyone,small business will really suffer,one man supplied sandwiches to local filling stations ect and he is sitting in llimbo with all his stock because no one is getting the information out.
The date mentioned was after september 2008 so im of the opinion that if you have eaten pork products affected in such vast quantities eg spent 24hrs a day stuffing it all in from that date to now.......you might possibly need looked at by a doctor......only because you are 99% certain of suffering a heart attack,lol.
I really feel sorry for local buthcers,farmers and small business because they are in limo at the moment and who can afford a loss at anytime..let alone christmas!
Another caller to Nolan mentioned turkeys...and Stephen said 'the FSA will have already checked that out.........wont they??????!
I wonder what tomorrow will bring!
Laura.

yorkie98

I'm sure that we, as sensible humans can keep this in proportion, even if the media can't. The exposure required to this toxin would need to be a large amount over a prolonged period of time. So keeping it in proportion, there's bacically no likelihood of any risky intake of this stuff. I have a 16 pack of bacon rashers from Tesco of NI pork, part used and the rest is going exactly the same place, in my hungry mouth!
I'm more likely to suffer long term ill effects if I allow myself to get stressed out over this than any possible exposure of tiny amounts of a chemical that i'm probably exposed to in other ways anyway.
Amusing to see the shelves in Tesco this morning stripped of all Irish pork products, yet McDonalds served me up my breakfast without any mention of a problem. There wasn't even a notice up, which I was quite suprised about. I would have expected either an apology for non-availabilty of sausage/bacon etc or an assurance that Irish pork is not used, but no, nothing, business as usual. No mention on the website either.
A quick phone call to customer services reveals that all UK and Ireland restraunts are supplied with pork products produced in GB with only GB meat so not affected, however 6 McCafes in ROI have withdrawn some lines as these source meat locally.
This is bound to really hurt the meat industry here in NI and in the ROI too, 2 weeks from xmas, and all those hams and gammon joints etc withdrawn. There are sure to be casualties, if not the producers, most certainly in the supply chain. What a tradgedy at the worst possible time.

Colin_Kee

Hmm now Northern Ireland Pork is OK, "" Apart from that produced in the South " Makes you realise you really can't believe anything you read on a label. Seems Pork Produced in another country (Keep the politics out of it:rotfl: :rotfl: ) but processed in NI. is NI Pork.. Hmmmmmmmmmm. I take it that that would mean Beef produced in Argentina, but process in Ireland would be Irish Beef??????

Glad I didn't through out the Bacon.... Food Scares.... take them all with a pinch of salt..

Shereen

I have a freezer drawer half-full of pig related products from Greenmount Meats at St. George's Market and won't be throwing them out. I'll talk to the butcher on Friday and see what they say. As you guys have said the news is changing so frequently it's hard to know what's what. I did throw out the chops we were going to have for Sunday dinner, but they wouldn't go back in the freezer and we really weren't in the mood for pork that day.

Beeb Norn Iron says: "Pigs in Northern Ireland have not consumed feed contaminated with dioxins, the Food Standards Agency has said.
However, 11 NI premises processed pork from the Republic and the meat was put on sale in Northern Ireland." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7772496.stm

What that doesn't make clear is the whole "processed pork" bit. Does that mean things like sausages and bacon, or does it mean any joint of pork?

gloria

Anyone managed to find the recall list that Asda have reportedly published. Sains is on their website, but no sign of Mr T or Mr A. :mad: