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A bizarre new proposal submitted to Brussels could see European kebab houses forced to measure the thickness of doner meat slices in order to comply with regulations.

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A series of 130 actions are set to be delivered in 2022 under an annual plan for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM).

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Boris Johnson poses with a string of sausages called ‘Boris Bangers’ in 2019. Picture: Darren Staples/Getty In 2009, a group of 20 butchers from Cumbria, a county in the north west of England, banded together to form the Cumberland Sausage Association and pushed for special status for the renowned meat product first developed as a local speciality in the region over 500 years previously. After two years of campaigning, the Cumberland sausage was awarded Protected Geographical Indicator (PGI...

SHARING OPTIONS: The application was submitted last November after an extensive consultation process with stakeholders. \ Donal O Leary The European Commission has indicated that it would be possible for Northern Ireland to make a submission requesting that the geographical area of the Irish grass-fed beef Protected Geographical Indicator (PGI) be extended to the whole island of Ireland. The European Commission also indicated that this process should be vie...

Cider is as synonymous with Herefordshire as, well, apples. James Thomas presents 10 of the top producers ensuring that the countys reputation as a…

LMC developing ‘grass-fed’ status for NI beef The Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) are leading work with industry representatives and DAERA officials to develop a grass-fed standard and verification system for NI beef. The standard will be equivalent to a similar scheme in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). It will allow NI beef to be labelled under an all-island Protected Geographical Indicator (PGI) for grass-fed beef, assuming the PGI application is approved by the EU. In response to a wr...

Letter to the editor: Science is the future to make farming viable In 2019 the food and drinks industry made history; I suspect due to innovation supported by science. At the beginning of this year a report published by Bord Bia highlighted 2019 as having the highest level of exports in Bord Bia’s 25-year history bringing to a close a decade of consistent and extraordinary growth in which food, drink and horticulture exports have grown by 67%, or €5.5 billion since 2010, as I understand it....