The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served four Closure Orders and eight Prohibition Orders on food businesses in July.
A Closure Order is served where it is deemed that there is or there is likely to be a grave and immediate danger to public health at or in the premises.
A Prohibition Order is issued if the activities (handling, processing, disposal, manufacturing, storage, distribution or selling food) involve or are likely to involve a serious risk to public health from a particular product, class, batch or item of food.
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Some of the reasons for the Closure Orders in July included:
- live rats spotted on the premises;
- rat droppings found near food storage and evidence of pests gnawing foodstuffs;
- a very poor standard of basic hygiene in the food preparation areas posing a risk of food contamination;
- food handlers inadequately trained and lacking knowledge on temperature control, pest control and cleaning;
- high-risk cooked foods were not temperature-controlled, with chicken found to have been stored at 23 degrees Celsius;
- A lack of food safety monitoring leading to unsafe food being produced and sold.
The full notices are available to read on FSAI.ie.
Three Closure Orders were served under the FSAI Act, 1998 on:
- Zing by Chaska (restaurant/café), 90 - 91 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
- Superfruit, The English Market, Cork
- Bamboo Foods Ltd (restaurant/café), Station Roundabout, Ramelton Road, Letterkenny, Donegal
One Closure Order was served under the European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020 on:
- Doson (take away), 10 Dorset Street Lower, Dublin 1
Eight Prohibition Orders, which are under appeal, were served under the European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020 on
- Holland and Barrett (under appeal), Units 5 & 6, Cedar Drive, Dublin Airport Logistics Park, Saint Margarets Road, Saint Margarets, County Dublin
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