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As part of Roscommon Arts Centre’s Inside Out programme of events this summer there is an enormous pig is making its way to the town this August.

The pork meat scandel has escalated in recent days following the news that 'the type of oil used in the pig meal processing factory at County Carlow was inappropriate for the type of operation' which was was carrying out.

Hundreds of Kilkenny people and their families are to feel the effects of the pigmeat recall as the number of jobs lost as a result of the dioxin scare rose significantly this week in this area.

Carlow County Council has carried out inspections of the feed processor at the centre of the Irish pork crisis.

The proven effectiveness of the traceability system operated by the Department of Agriculture underlines the reason why Irish consumers should buy Irish meats rather than accept products produced in countries like Brazil that have questionable standards.

The handling of the recent pork crisis by the Government has been lambasted as not good enough by Fine Gael councillor and pork wholesaler Cllr Tom Connolly. The Claremorris based councillor was not mincing his words when he spoke to the Mayo Advertiser this week. “The whole handling of the situation has been messed up from the beginning. While food safety is of the utmost importance to everyone involved in the industry the way this has been dealt with has been a massive blow to the industry in a time of economic turmoil. It’s been almost a week since the recall was announced and now only today (Thursday, December 11) are things getting back to normal. But you’re still looking at it being the middle of the week next week before things get back to normal.”

Thankfully the recent Irish bacon disaster has passed its worst at this stage and pig producers are once again doing what they know best and that is providing us consumers with some of the very best bacon in the world.