Beef
Mechanical carcass grading suspended twice so far in 2020
Mechanical grading for carcasses has been suspended on two occasions so far in 2020, but no factory has been fined...
Beef
Mechanical grading for carcasses has been suspended on two occasions so far in 2020, but no factory has been fined...
Beef
The meat industry workers’ division of trade union SIPTU has hit out at being excluded from last week’s Oireachtas Special...
Beef
There are currently no active cases of Covid-19 in meat plants in the country, according to Meat Industry Ireland (MII)....
Beef
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is in talks with the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) to ensure...
Beef
Following the mass testing of meat plant staff at a number of facilities for Covid-19, 13 individuals had to be...
Rural Life
Concerns remain over the tracing of close contacts among staff at meat plants who have become infected with Covid-19. In...
Beef
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has inspected 13 meat plants that have been impacted by Covid-19, out of the...
Rural Life
There are “contacting and communication difficulties” in tracing the close contacts of some meat plant staff infected with Covid-19, Minister...
Beef
103 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified in meat processors in the past week. This figure accounts for the...
Agri Politics
Inspections of meat plants should be carried out unannounced, according to Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture and food Brian Stanley....
Agri Politics
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has been called on to “tackle the power of the beef...
Beef
Trade union SIPTU has written to its members among meat plant workers around the country to outline its plans to...
Beef
A total of 17 employers associated with meat processing have been inspected by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) since January 2019,...
Beef
Five meat plant workers have been admitted to intensive care units (ICU) in hospitals with Covid-19, it has been confirmed....
Agri Politics
The country faces the risk of a second wave of Covid-19 if lessons are not learned from the “mistakes” made...
Beef
There are now 16 meat plants across the country that have been identified as Covid-19 clusters by the Health Service...
Beef
Meat plants could be directed to close their premises and cease business activity if the Health Service Executive (HSE) sees...
Agri Politics
The Dáil will take the “unprecedented step” of questioning three cabinet ministers in a single Dáil session on the scale of...