Yet another Quango initiated disaster?

Well - what can I say. Looks like some more of these Quango's - the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Bord Bia - have "over cooked" the pork. Top marks for message delivery and a PR disaster.

OK - yes, the government must champion the public health, but now, having done this, it transpires they may have injured a fragile economy further.

One thing I notice with Government AND with the Quango's is the LACK OF JOINED UP THINKING. In this case proper thinking with respect to ALL the potential consequences of one acton - Public Health, the Economic consequences.

It turns out now that only 10% of Pig Production is affected by this South East Feed Companies errant ways? Surely a limited destruction of pig produce around the affected farms, producers and processors would have been more appropriate. From what I have heard it appears that the Food Safety Authority of Irelands Tracability System is not as gold star as it could be. The spot checks are not as many OR as frequent as would be necessary and the Tracability System is not comprehensive enough to narrow down in a guaranteed way, where the questionable produce is at any one time. The excuse I heard is - "Shur Its not like that anywhere else in the world". So is that a good enough excuse?

No doubt - now that we have our quangofied system in place the appropriate Government Department will proceed to buck pass to the FSAI, Bord Bia ....