A short-term impact on trade, medium-term limits to EU market access and the long-term prospect of court action and serious EU sanctions. These are the key organisational risks laid out by agriculture and food department officials in an internal note from July, released under freedom of information law. The officials were reacting to the findings of a European Commission audit on the department’s oversight of Ireland’s pet food manufacturing sector.  The EU audit findings were stark.  The Commission found widespread, systematic failure in the system of checks and balances here. Their findings, they said, put the effectiveness of the entire…

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