Two dead mice were found on the premises. A crèche in Dublin was slapped with a closure order last month due to ‘heavy and widespread rodent infestation’ on the premises. The FSAI released their closure orders for June and in total there were five orders handed out to Irish business, including Giraffe Childcare in Elm Park, […]

1 year ago

“These businesses are damaging the reputation of the food industry.” There were a total of nine closure orders issued in March for Irish restaurants that showed “totally inadequate hygiene standards”. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) have released their monthly list of closure orders from the period of March 2024, of which there were […]

2 years ago

Make sure you’re not eating for this one. A new report from The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) revealed some of the more eye-catching descriptions of food safety issues, including a dead mouse found in a punnet of strawberries. The FSAI report, which released this week, revealed that a total of 4,395 food hygiene […]

2 years ago

There are some pretty nasty examples in here. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) have revealed that food safety complaints are up 18 per cent across the country, continuing an upward trend across the decade. A total of 7,363 queries and complaints were handled by the FSAI Advice Line last year. There were 4,058 […]

3 years ago

We’re all guilty of reheating leftover Chinese in its plastic container. But we think we are going to reconsider that move in future after reading a new study from the Harvard Medical School. In a feature they published entitled ‘Microwaving food in plastic: Dangerous or not?’, they stated that many plastic containers can actually leak toxins […]

8 years ago