Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has quashed any potential threat to pigmeat markets created by the confirmation of TB in Irish pigs, describing the issue as \u201csmall scale\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not talking about something that\u2019s on a large scale that is an endemic problem here,\u201d he said, adding that TB is not a notifiable disease. <\/p>\n
Understood to have been sporadically detected for a number of years, TB has been confirmed on nine pig farms in five counties so far this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously we pay very close attention to any disease and its trajectory, but ultimately here, this is all about pig farms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s really, really important is the bio-security measures that are in place, where their feed is stored, how that interacts, and how the people working on the farm move from one unit to another and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
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