The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served five closure orders on food businesses last month for breaches of food safety legislation, including active rodent infestations and inadequate cleaning.<\/p>\n
The affected food businesses are located in Cork, Waterford, and Dublin.<\/p>\n
They are:<\/p>\n
Lily House, 4 South Square, Rosscarbery, Cork;
\nCraftCup Limited, Unit 67B Heather Road, Sandyford Business Park, Sandyford, Dublin 18;
\nYama, 97 Gerald Griffin Street, Blackpool, Cork;
\nEmpoli Restaurant, Unit 24, The Plaza, Main Street, Swords, Dublin;
\nDoolys Fish and Chips, Waterford & Tramore Racecourse, Crobally Upper, Tramore, Waterford.<\/p>\n
The latter’s closed activity is the manufacture and wholesale of foods of animal origin and subsequent placing on the market.<\/p>\n
The FSAI said some the reasons for the enforcement orders in April are:<\/p>\n
Active rodent infestation in food storage and kitchen areas, rodent droppings beside shelving units used to store food;
\nCobwebs and spider egg sacs in food preparation areas;
\nUse of an unapproved establishment;
\nInaccurate declaration of food allergens, insufficient traceability information;
\nNo food safety management system or procedures in place;
\nInadequate cleaning and disinfection procedures in place;
\nMould growth and dampness on staff toilet walls;
\nInadequate cleaning of equipment, utensils and food premises;
\nNo monitoring records for reheating high-risk foods such as chicken, staff handling food without demonstrating safe food handling practices.<\/p>\n
FSAI chief executive, Greg Dempsey, reminded food businesses of the importance of always maintaining robust food safety standards.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery food business must have effective food safety management systems in place to ensure that food is stored, prepared and served safely.<\/p>\n
“Cleanliness, pest control, proper staff training and food traceability are fundamental requirements and are essential to protecting public health.<\/p>\n
“Consumers have a right to safe food and food businesses have a legal responsibility to ensure the food they provide to consumers is safe to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dempsey said the FSAI strongly encourages food businesses to “continuously improve their food safety standards” via regular training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served five closure orders on food businesses last month for breaches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-444952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444952","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=444952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}