A limited supply of Irish pork products returned to the shelves of several supermarkets chains across the country today following the resumption of processing in the industry and yesterday’s all-clear for Irish pork from the European Food Safety Authority.
Musgraves, which owns Supervalu and Centra stores, said it was stocking a limited amount of Irish-sourced pork produce.
A spokeswoman said about 30 per cent of the current stock was Irish including ham, bacon and sausages.
She said the stock was being supplemented with French pork as well as ham and bacon products from Denmark and the Netherlands.
Superquinn also said a limited amount of Irish pork products - sourced from a farm in Co Kilkenny where the meat was fully traceable - had returned to its shelves.
It said it had re-introduced its own-brand sausages, pork chops, and its “Gleann na Greine” rashers.
The supermarket said it expected its normal supply of products to return in the coming days as slaughtering resumed following the contamination scare.
Tesco said its producers had resumed processing today and it expected Irish pork products to be back on the shelves from Saturday.
A spokesman said Tesco was “fully committed to Irish pork producers”.
Aldi said it had no Irish pork products on sale at any of its stores today and its current stock was sourced from other EU countries.
“Aldi Stores are working alongside Bord Bia to reintroduce Irish sourced pork products to our Irish stores as soon as possible,” a spokesman said.
“In the interim, so as to continue to provide our customers with a complete product offering, we have temporarily sourced exclusively non Irish EU approved pork products to go on shelf,” he said.
Some local butchers have already begun selling pork again after Department of Agriculture or local authority vets sanctioned processors to release it.
