Unlicensed oil was used at a food recycling plant at the centre of the pork contamination crisis which has crippled the country's pig industry, it has been confirmed.
A senior Government official said oil being used at the plant to dry food products for animal feed was "not appropriate" to the type of operation at the facility. Senior inspector Dermot Ryan also revealed Robert Hogg, who owns Millstream Power Recycling Limited, in Co Carlow, did not have a licence from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to store or use the type of oil concerned.
The Department of Agriculture official said the oil had not been mixed into the animal feed, but was being used in a machine which turned recycled foods into feed when the contamination occurred. The feed, tainted with dioxins, was supplied to 56 pig and beef farms across the north and south of Ireland.
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