YES, immediately. There is not and there has not been any danger to health from pigmeat. The Food Safety Authoriey has questions to answer. Why it caused panic by a blanket recall of all pork products? If there is strict traceability (as we are told) surely only the meat from contaminated farms should have been withdrawn and it should have been done in an organised manner, not tell the public on a Saturday afternoon, to bin everything pork.

Like many quangoes (the Competition Authority, the Equality Agency etc spring to mind) the Food Safety Authority has to justify its existence and account for the large sums of taxpayers money which it spends every year. A few incidents like this and the Government will throw more money at it.

I feel sorry for the pig farmers. Some of them are facing ruin by circumstances over which they have no control.

Not if they keep putting cutsie photos of pigs on the front pages! But seriously, yes I will. There is always some form of scaremongering going on in the media, and if we were to buy into all of it we would live on boiled potatoes and never leave the house. regards

I purchased some items of pork bacon and processed food from the pig meat at the weekend.I must admit when I was watching the telly on Saturday night and the news flash came on I was a little bit taken aback with the way it was said. " The food Safety Authority announced, bla bla! anyway we were told to destroy any pork meat that was purchased after September. I happened to be eating a few Bar-B-Qued ribs for the supper, well I was'nt giving them to the dog. I ate the lot the misses would'nt touch them.

I had chicken and bacon for sunday and the rest for sambos on Monday, I believe at this stage if the crises was going on since September at this stage I should be dead. So to answer the question I'll eat pork and bacon and ham and rashers puddings and sausages and cooked meats as long as I feel safe eating them.

I really feel sorry for the pig producers and the factory workers who are being sent home and may not be able to work for the run up to Christmas. At this stage most people will stop buying these products.

Hopefully it will all be over very quick and people will not lose their jobs, I suppose the next item will be beef. I hope not.

On Sunday we had Pork Stake and enjoyed it and I will continue to eat pork and ham. I am personally disgusted that people jump to conclusions instead of listening to what is being said by those who know. We had a well respected Professor of Medicine telling us that we would need to sit and eat 50 FIFTY whole Pigs at one sitting before we would have any adverse effect, if you do not believe him who do you believe. It made me physically sick to see all that good food being destroyed on the TV today, when we have people who could do with a good meal not to mention all the people in other countries who are dying of starvation, do you think they would adopt the same attitude as our Irish brothers and sisters.

I believe there are a good majority of Irish people out there who are dying of boredom and give them anything to cause a fuss about and they will be first up on the podium with the mike in their hands.

I can understand that the Government had to advise the people, otherwise all hell would break lose, if it was discovered by another. but I feel so so sorry for the farmers particularly at this time of year, talk about beating a man when he is down, this couldn't have happened at a worse time and if I had the opportunity to deal with the irresponsible mad man who did not pay attention to his job when processing the pig feed I would be one of the happiest people in the world, STAND UP AND BE COUNTED WHOEVER YOU ARE!

I bought 2 packets of sausages last Thursday, had some for breakfast on Saturday and fully intend on eating the rest.

I would also like to suggest that once Irish pork produce is back on our shelves everyone that's planning on sticking to tradition and buying a ham for Christmas, please buy one that came from an Irish producer and do your bit to help pig farmers get back on their feet.

BRAD, Do you mean to say You let your dog sit there watching you scoffing the lot! that dog is going to leave home mean Brad!

I only wished I stocked up on rashers and sausages to get me through this! How will I survive a saturday morning hangover without rashers and sausages? Destroying all the port products and not allowing the sale of pork has to be one of the worst knee jerk reactions from this govenment

Don't worry Jamie you can still get your sausos and rashers in Lidal, and still eat to your hearts content,. And just to let Anon @10.55 of course I did'nt let the dog go hungery you silly Billy, he scoffed down all the bones .

Yes immediately.

My only problem is with this incompetent Govt. They pressed the wrong button.

Irish people would have continued to eat pork anyway.

Smoking gives you cancer. Even if pork gave you cancer they would still eat it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we eat it because we like it...................

I can't believe it but on Saturday I bought Pork Steak, Pork Pies, Sausages and Rashers, I rarely do that, and I have been eating them ever since. I smoked 30+ cigs a day up to 18 months ago but a cigarette never tasted as good as that last fry up!

Oh Happy Days!

CU

In the first sentence of my previous post last Monday, I said that there was no danger to health from pigmeat. If an ordinary joe soap without all the fancy facilities of the Food Safety Authority can tell that the dioxin level couldn't be such as to cause health problems surely this body of highly paid executives should have known it. But then we wouldn't know antything about the FSA unless they created a few food scares every year. Abolish this quango.

FSA, you mean SFA !!

Just cost the taxpayer a minimum of 180 million. That`s some mistake

Who will lose their job ? Answers to Brendan Smith

I cannot understand why all pork products were taken off the shelves and so many people’s livelihoods put at risk (pig farmers, processing factories) when we were told clearly the health risk was minimal and equivalent to smoking one cigarette. I smoke twenty everyday quite happily……

And what about the contaminated bottled water? Is this still on the shelves?

Elana,

If I was a pig processor i would relabel all the pork that was returned and have it on the shelves. No - one would know any better !!!

Also - one word - cigarettes

If people want to kill themselves through smoking, then they do so with full knowledge of the risks involved. The difference is that with the pork, people did not realise that there was a risk (however small) and the consumer is entitled to knowledge of and protection from such risks. BTW just had my first brekky in kylemore since this scare. omg I missed bacon sooo much!!

Yes immediately. Since I personaly like pork meat.

Dr.Hermon Mihranian

Hi All,

I ignored the advice and had some in then, when I heard Professor Pat Wall suggesting that I would need to "eat 50 pigs at one sitting" I thought thats ok then one rasher won't do me any harm.

To the folks on this site, just how much Pork do you consume anyway, by the letters you all must have lived on Pork!

What are you going to do about the bottled water being removed from Superquinn, Aldi and Lidel shelves it was on the news 20 minutes ago (10 a.m. Monday)!