A Dublin restaurant where inspectors found a “bucket of brown unidentifiable liquid” beneath the sink in its bar was among four businesses issued with closure orders last month.<\/p>\n
The inspection at Chillers restaurant in the Liffey Valley Complex also found an accumulation of grease deposits on the ceiling tiles above a utensil wash sink.<\/p>\n
The “bucket of brown unidentifiable liquid” also contained white pipes, according to a report by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI).<\/p>\n
The restaurant’s dishwasher was broken, leaving staff with “insufficient capability to clean equipment and utensils,” according to the FSAI.<\/p>\n
The authority also said that staff observed handling food in the kitchen “did not demonstrate knowledge and or understanding of safe food handling practices or personal hygiene practices”.<\/p>\n
“Staff could not explain safe food cooling processes, traceability and were not observed to wash their hands in the kitchen area,” it said.<\/p>\n
The walls, wall floor junction and doors in the main kitchen were “spattered with food and dirty throughout”, it said.<\/p>\n
The restaurants cooker hob and oven were greasy and dirty, the FSAI found.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two microwaves were dirty and covered in dried food residue. Several pieces of cooked fish were left on a counter at a temperature of 15.9C.<\/p>\n
Staff were unable to indicate when the fish was cooked or removed from chilled storage, and there were no records to support the cooking or cooling process.<\/p>\n
The Shamrock Lodge’s kitchen in Finglas was also closed after a major leak from its ceiling required four or five buckets placed on the floor and on surfaces where food was being prepared.<\/p>\n
The inspector said this “posed a grave and immediate danger to public health”.<\/p>\n
The White Sands Hotel in Portmarnock was forced to close its small kitchen on the ground floor in January due to rodent activity.<\/p>\n
Foods labelled with ‘use by’ dates for the purpose of sale or supply in O’Connell\u2019s food store were held.<\/p>\n
The move came after an inspector found the store on Main Street, Bansha in Tipperary, had placed unsafe food on the market.<\/p>\n
Milk with a use by date of 15 January was found during an inspection on 19 January.<\/p>\n
Cooked ham with a use by date of 7 January and rashers labelled with use by dates of 29 December were also found.<\/p>\n
FSAI Chief Executive Greg Dempsey said inspectors are finding “recurring incidents of unhygienic practices and rodent infestations in food businesses”.<\/p>\n
“Implementing and maintaining a food safety management system is a basic requirement and should be of the highest importance for food businesses,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Dempsey added that “maintaining a clean premises is not a \u2018nice to have\u2019 – it is a basic legal requirement”.<\/p>\n
“All food businesses have a duty of care to their customers to serve food that is prepared in a clean premises and is safe to eat.<\/p>\n
“There is no excuse for bad practice,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin restaurant where inspectors found a “bucket of brown unidentifiable liquid” beneath the sink in its bar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-290882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290882","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=290882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}