{"id":13431,"date":"2025-09-11T02:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/13431\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:31:10","slug":"mid-kerry-takeaway-restaurant-issued-with-closure-order-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/13431\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid Kerry takeaway restaurant issued with closure order in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine enforcement orders were served on food businesses across the country last month, including one in Kerry.<\/p>\n

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland<\/a> (FSAI) reports these were for breaches of food safety legislation, including cockroach infestations, discovery of rat droppings and inadequate hand washing facilities.<\/p>\n

The latest report shows eight closure orders and one prohibition order were issued.<\/p>\n

This includes a closure order of Burger Smash take away in Killorglin, under EU (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020.<\/p>\n

Radio Kerry has contacted Burger Smash for comment.<\/p>\n

A closure order is served where it is deemed that there is \/or likely to be a grave and immediate danger to public health at or in the premises; or where an improvement order is not complied with.<\/p>\n

Burger Smash of 4 Langford Street, Killorglin<\/a> was served a closure order by a HSE Environmental Health Officer on August 8th.<\/p>\n

According to the report this was lifted on the 10th of August.<\/p>\n

In the report, it was noted the business was found to be non-compliant in five areas.<\/p>\n

The inspector noted that no hot water was available at hand wash basins throughout the premises, while a staff member stated he didn\u2019t use hot water when questioned.<\/p>\n

The report outlines that raw beef and raw chicken were being prepared in the kitchen without effective cleaning and disinfection procedures being in place.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0no hot water was available to clean and sanitise work surfaces, utensils, equipment and food containers.<\/p>\n

It also found no evidence that procedures were in place to prevent cross-contamination; that adequate traceability systems of on-site food preparation were not evident – these included the lack of evidence of the date of delivery, batch code and supplier details.<\/p>\n

The inspector noted the business operator didn\u2019t produce in writing allergen information for non pre packed food, while the food worker demonstrated a lack of food safety knowledge.<\/p>\n

The Food Safety Authority<\/a> says it\u2019s disappointing to see the same issues, being identified each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine enforcement orders were served on food businesses across the country last month, including one in Kerry. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-13431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}