McColgan Quality Foods Limited supplied halal food to prisons that contained pork DNA.
The company which supplied halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA has been named.
Food distributor 3663 identified McColgan Quality Foods Limited, a Northern Ireland-based company, as the source of “the very small number of halal savoury beef pastry products” found to contain pork DNA which it supplied to prisons.
Islamic law forbids the consumption of pork.
The distributor has not been suspended, but a “sub-contractor” has been suspended, the Ministry of Justice said.
The discovery that some halal products it supplied contained pork DNA was described as “wholly unacceptable” by 3663 due to McColgan Quality Foods being accredited by the Halal Food Authority.
