Food Minister’s brother runs company at centre of latest horsemeat scandal

More worrying than who is employed by who, is how long has this being going on and to what scale.

surprised,why?politico.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland needs to be recognised for the work it has done in protecting consumers by uncovering a huge Europe wide scam (the UK, France, Sweden, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Poland to date) perhaps even wider. It has set the standard others across Europe will have to follow from now on; a growing list of food processors and retailers say they will introduce such testing after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's findings. The testing was done by IdentiGEN Ltd., an Irish company founded in 1996 after world class research conducted at Trinity College Dublin. It now has laboratories in the UK, US and Canada, and offers its DNA TraceBack scheme to big retailers. Nations will always dress a story from the perspective of their national vantage point -Large nations that sustain international media companies, can do harm to smaller nations as they frequently ignore relevant information out of a lack of insight into that jurisdiction. In an ideal world, the media of the Irish Diaspora, would help counteract this by publishing relevant information and protecting Irish interests from misleading reporting abroad. If it was another jurisdiction's Food safety Authority, using standards and science developed by them, that uncovered this international scam, you can be sure we would be hearing about it.

It is highly relevant that this Europe wide scam was uncovered in Ireland, due to the DNA testing which ~I spoke of below. IC has written a number of articles on this story, yet I do not think it has written one on this highly relevant point. Why not?

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland needs to be recognised for the work it has done in protecting consumers by uncovering a huge Europe wide scam (the UK, France, Sweden, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Poland to date) perhaps even wider. It has set the standard others across Europe will have to follow from now on; a growing list of food processors and retailers say they will introduce such testing after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's findings. The testing was done by IdentiGEN Ltd., an Irish company founded in 1996 after world class research conducted at Trinity College Dublin. It now has laboratories in the UK, US and Canada, and offers its DNA TraceBack scheme to big retailers. Nations will always dress a story from the perspective of their national vantage point -Large nations that sustain international media companies, can do harm to smaller nations as they frequently ignore relevant information out of a lack of insight into that jurisdiction. In an ideal world, the media of the Irish Diaspora, would help counteract this by publishing relevant information and protecting Irish interests from misleading reporting abroad. If it was another jurisdiction's Food safety Authority, using standards and science developed by them, that uncovered this international scam, you can be sure we would be hearing about it.