Re: Pigmeat recall: Ml Creed FG Agri spokesman, cheap and nasty shot on MI this AM
Giving that there are four different watchdogs with a role in food safety and not one of them detected this, but rather the Italian I think cheap shots are the least of the goverment problems.
So we have 4 watchdogs, of which none did their job (independent of the discussion if the test could have been done in the testing centre at Backweston for which we paid over 12,000,000€ or somewhere in England) to protect us consumers.
It was the Italians that raised the alarm and it took our 4 watchdogs considerable time to respond and than despite the promisse that meat is traceable they deceided to do a complete recall. If the promissed fully traceable to the pig standard is reality, why do we need to recall everything? Shouldn't we be able to trace down the meat in question?
4 watchdogs, a 12,000,000 € facility, promisses of fully traceable meat later and the outcome? PANIC!
This latest episode of the comedy (or tragedy) we call goverment makes a strong case that we have too many incompetent watchdogs with useless standards.
We need a modern public service that is given the direction by competent people and not highly paid ministers who don't even know how much their haircut cost or who paid for it. (see another cheap shot).