by admin | Mar 23, 2017 | Press Releases
22 MARCH 2017 ICSA general secretary Eddie Punch today met with EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis in Brussels where he emphasised the need for a tough response to the Brazilian meat scandal. “ICSA is calling for a full ban of Brazilian...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Press Releases
21 MARCH 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has said he was shocked to hear EU Commission officials admit in the European Parliament that they only found out about the Brazilian meat scandal via press reports. Mr Kent was in attendance at a European Parliament...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Press Releases
21 MARCH 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has called for a total ban on Brazilian meat imports to the EU and for trade talks with the Mercosur bloc to be suspended indefinitely. Mr Kent made his comments at the European Parliament in Brussels today at a Farm Europe...
by admin | Mar 20, 2017 | Press Releases
20 MARCH 2017 ICSA president Patrick Kent has called on the EU to immediately ban all Brazilian beef imports in the light of the emerging scandal on shoddy practices in Brazilian meat plants and bribery of Brazilian officials. “The EU has been warned time and time...
by admin | Mar 20, 2017 | Press Releases
16 MARCH 2017 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has reiterated the association’s stance that an immediate interim payment should be made to all farmers with Hen Harrier designation. Mr Sherlock made his comments following the revelation that the...
by admin | Mar 15, 2017 | Press Releases
14 MARCH 2017 ICSA beef chairman Edmond Phelan has said the proposed takeover of Dunbia by Dawn Meats would be a major blow to competition within the sector. “Beef farmers struggle to get a fair price as it is and most farmers would associate the difficulties in...