A Co Offaly shop and takeaway with human waste overflowing from a manhole in a staff toilet was among 13 businesses issued with closure orders last month.<\/p>\n
At the Village Shop & Takeaway in Mountbolus, the waste was overflowing into a room storing food contact equipment adjacent to a food preparation area.<\/p>\n
The Food Safety Authority (FSAI) said it provided a “direct opportunity for pathogenic bacteria likely present in human waste to contaminate food or food preparation areas, rendering it unsafe”.<\/p>\n
There was 11 closure orders were issued to businesses by the FSAI, while two prohibition orders were also issued.<\/p>\n
A closure order was issued to the Diwali Restaurant on South Great Georges Street in Dublin after a significant cockroach infestation throughout the kitchen food preparation areas was found.<\/p>\n
Inspectors said they found cockroaches present at all stages of their life cycle, while multiple dead cockroaches were also found in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
A closure order was also issued to the Babylon restaurant in Tipperary, where a dead rodent was found behind equipment in close proximity to food products in an upstairs kitchen.<\/p>\n
At a mobile food unit called Canteen Street Food in Damastown Park on the Damastown Road in Parslickstown, Dublin 15, inspectors found there no means of carrying out effective cleaning.<\/p>\n
As a result, surfaces and equipment were in a dirty condition.<\/p>\n
Other businesses which closed under the FSAI act 1998 include the India Dining Restaurantand C\u00e1fe at, Prospect House, Church Street, Wicklow, and Roots food stall trading at Salthill & Monkstown Dart Station.<\/p>\n
Five Closure Orders were served under the European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020 on:<\/p>\n
Chicken Club (Take Away), 1 The Square, Listowel, Kerry<\/p>\n
Sheela Palace (Restaurant\/Caf\u00e9), Ballyowen Shopping Centre, Castle Road, Lucan, County Dublin<\/p>\n
Deli Gold – Grill House (Restaurant\/Caf\u00e9), 3b Hyde Court, Townsend Street, Dublin 2<\/p>\n
Elm Tree Farm Food Stall, trading at Clonmel Show (Retailer\/Other), Powerstown Park Racecourse, Clonmel, Tipperary<\/p>\n
Sushimi (Closed activity: The preparation and sale of Sushi in the shared kitchen on the first floor of 62 Mary Street, Dublin) (Restaurant\/Caf\u00e9), 62 Mary Street, Dublin 1<\/p>\n
One Prohibition Order was served under FSAI Act 1998 on:<\/p>\n
Ocras (Foods of Non-Animal Origin Processing) Unit H West Cork Business & Technology Park, Clonakilty, Cork<\/p>\n
One Prohibition Order was served under European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020 on:<\/p>\n
Rebel Ice Cream (Wholesaler\/Distributor-Other), Unit 4 Cherrywood Business Park, Harbour Point, Little Island, Cork<\/p>\n
Greg Dempsey, Chief Executive, FSAI, said:\u201cThe issues identified in these Enforcement Orders are deeply concerning and demonstrate serious failures in basic food safety controls.<\/p>\n
“We continue to see cases where essential requirements, including effective cleaning, pest control, safe food handling practices, staff training and food safety management systems, are not being properly implemented.<\/p>\n
“These are not optional measures; they are legal requirements that every food business must have in place to protect consumers.<\/p>\n
“Where businesses fail to meet these fundamental standards and public health is at risk, enforcement action will continue to be taken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Offaly shop and takeaway with human waste overflowing from a manhole in a staff toilet was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-590133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590133","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=590133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}