Food bosses shut down three sushi takeaways being run from one family’s bedroom, it emerged yesterday.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued the closure orders to the same premises that was operating as three unregistered online sushi takeaways, it said in an October report.
Koi Sushi, Nagoya Sushi, and Kyoto Sushi were all found to be operating from a bedroom at Shanvara Road, Santry, North Dublin.
They have since been found to be in breach of food safety laws.
The FSAI said food was being produced, processed and distributed in an unsatisfactory and unclean environment and there was an “absence of safe practice when handling raw fish and cooked rice”.
Another two closure orders were issued for The Funky Skunk (Cork) Limited, Colomane, Bantry, Co Cork and Speedos (Restaurant/ Cafe), Tuckey Street, Cork City.
Among the reasons for the The Funky Skunk closure were a live rat spotted running across a rear wall, evidence of extensive rodent activity throughout food preparation and storage areas and rodent droppings and gnawed foodstuffs “posed a grave and imminent danger to public health”.The closure order on Speedos was lifted the day after it was issued.
Referring to the closures. Dr FSAI chief Pamela Byrne said: “Running a food business that has not been registered and is, therefore, not supervised is totally unacceptable and poses a very serious risk to consumers’ health.
“In these instances, the unregistered businesses were producing sushi without any hygiene or temperature controls.”
She added: “Sushi is a very high-risk product because it contains raw fish which must be kept chilled to reduce the growth of dangerous bacteria. It can also contain cooked rice, which is a ready-to-eat product that must be kept chilled.”
- Details are published on www.fsai.ie.
