It comes as 127 Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses for breaches of food safety legislation last year.<\/p>\n
The business, trading as Crosfield, in Northwest Business Park, Ballycoolin, Dublin 15 was issued with a closure order in December due to the presence of mice droppings.<\/p>\n
The inspector found mice droppings \u201cthroughout the premises, in wall floor junctions, under equipment and on shelving and close to foods\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no evidence that there were adequate procedures in place to control pests. There were a lot of droppings around one of the 2 bait boxes in the premises,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n
The inspector also noted the inadequate storage of stock against walls which prevented \u201cadequate access for cleaning, inspection, and effective pest control monitoring\u201d.<\/p>\n
This order is still in place.<\/p>\n
Ruby’s Cakes in Bohermeen, Navan, Co Meath was also issued a closure order in relation to a mouse infestation.<\/p>\n
The inspector identified the presence of \u201cnumerous mouse droppings on food storage and floor surfaces\u201d.<\/p>\n
They also found that the premise was not pest-proof.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were gaps evident at the wall floor junction in the part of the premises where droppings were found,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n
“There were gaps in the wall surface around pipework coming from the boiler.<\/p>\n
\u201cFood, food contact materials and food surfaces were not protected against potential rodent contact.\u201d<\/p>\n
This notice was lifted on December 15.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Quack\u2019n Wok in Custom House Square, Dublin 1 was also served with a closure order.<\/p>\n
The inspector found a defective toilet with an inadequate drainage system.<\/p>\n
\u201cFoul water was leaking from the defective soil pipe serving the toilet, and a hole in the toilet bowl in the staff sanitary accommodation. This had resulted in dirty water (likely to contain faeces) pooling on the floor of the toilet, the lobby of the toilet and into the sluice room,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe foul water was observed being spread through the kitchen on the feet and dirty clothing of staff. The chef was observed cleaning up foul water while wearing his food worker clothing. The foul water was observed being spread through the food premises on the feet of staff. The chef was observed cleaning up foul water while wearing his food worker clothing,\u201d added the report.<\/p>\n
This order is still in place.<\/p>\n
Sasaki Sushi in Stoneybatter, Dublin 7 was served with a closure notice last month also.<\/p>\n
The inspector noted that there was \u201cno evidence of regular and routine cleaning being conducted throughout the premises”.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll surfaces and touch surfaces within the premises were unclean, including equipment and shelving units.\u201d<\/p>\n
This order is still in place.<\/p>\n
Other businesses issued with closure orders last month include; Taha Butchers in Navan, Co Meath, EB Food Essentials in Ballickmoyler, Co Laois, Centra in Killenaule, Tipperary and Selera Space at Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18.<\/p>\n
Between January 1 and December 31, 2025, 102 closure orders, 23 prohibition orders and two improvement orders were issued, bringing the overall number of enforcement orders to 127.<\/p>\n
This is a decrease of 4.5pc of the 132 that were served in 2024.<\/p>\n
Mr Greg Dempsey, Chief Executive of the FSAI has said that while compliance has increased slightly, pest infestations, poor hygiene and unsafe storage are a concern.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhile the total number of Enforcement Orders in 2025 decreased slightly compared to 2024, it is disappointing that we continue to see enforcement action being necessary due to fundamental breaches, such as pest infestations, poor hygiene, unsafe storage of food, inadequate staff training and the absence of food safety management systems.<\/p>\n
“Additionally, we have found instances of unregistered food businesses operating illegally without notifying the competent authority, therefore bypassing essential food safety controls and putting consumers’ health at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes as 127 Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses for breaches of food safety legislation last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-242795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","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\/242795","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=242795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}