Three Closure Orders were served under the FSAI Act, 1998 on:

• Boba Bar (restaurant/café), 139 Parnell Street, Dublin 1
• Hartigans (public house), 100 Leeson Street Lower, Dublin 2
• Duud (retailer), Unit 2 Pinewood House, Huntstown Road, Huntstown, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15

Nine Closure Orders were served under the European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020 on:

• The Garden @ The Shannon Bar, Termonbarry, Roscommon
• Fayrouz Restaurant, 117 Cork Street, Dublin 8
• Riverhouse Café, 1 Castle Street, Cahir, Tipperary
• *Eurasia Supermarket, Unit 1, Fonthill Retail Park, Fonthill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
• Evergreen Retail Limited (retailer), Unit 1, Fonthill Retail Park, Fonthill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
• Humeera Traders Limited (retailer), Unit 1, Fonthill Retail Park, Fonthill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
• *Spice Village Indian Street Food (retailer), Unit 1, Fonthill Retail Park, Fonthill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
• *Eurasia Supermarket (Closed area: First floor food storage hall & attached kitchen area only), Unit 1, Fonthill Retail Park, Fonthill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
• *Spice Village Indian Street Food (Closed area – First floor food storage hall & attached kitchen area only) (retailer), Unit 1, Fonthill Retail Park, Fonthill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22

Three Prohibition Orders were served under the FSAI Act, 1998 on:

• Baltic Market (retailer), 2 Dominic Street, Drogheda, Louth
• Goa Indian Spice Kitchen Ltd (takeaway), Unit 103, St Patrick’s Woollen Mills, Douglas, Cork
• Select Asia (retailer), Unit 103, St Patrick’s Woollen Mills, Douglas, Cork

One Prohibition Order was served under the European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations, 2020 on:

• Quality Foods (butcher shop), 59-61 Dublin Street, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

Some of the reasons for the Enforcement Orders in July include: evidence of ongoing cockroach activity, which led to the serving of six Closure Orders on food businesses at one location; live cockroaches found in equipment and on traps in the kitchen area; multiple holes and gaps in the walls along with rodent droppings; a rodent carcass in a snap trap; failure to implement adequate pest control measures; failure to implement an appropriate food safety culture; food with either expired, missing or altered use-by dates; food not thawed safely; food items stored at unsafe temperatures; inadequate regular and thorough cleaning throughout the premises; equipment like meat slicers congealed with fat and stale food debris; continuous failure to maintain consistent cleaning standards; filthy cleaning equipment and cleaning cloths.

Dr Pamela Byrne, Chief Executive, FSAI, emphasised that compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations should be of the highest priority for all food businesses.

“Filthy premises, unsafe food storage and inadequate pest control measures are once again the primary reasons for this month’s Enforcement Orders. These violations demonstrate a total disregard for food safety requirements and highlight the ongoing failure of some food businesses to maintain basic, consistent cleaning practices, and this failure poses a significant risk to public health. Food businesses have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of the food they produce, distribute or sell by maintaining proper storage temperatures, ensuring staff are properly trained, having stringent hygiene practices and ensuring their food businesses are fully pest proofed. Achieving a strong food safety culture requires continuous and consistent training for all team members”.

Details of the food businesses served with Enforcement Orders are published on the FSAI’s website at www.fsai.ie. Closure Orders and Improvement Orders will remain listed in the enforcement reports on the website for a period of three months from the date of when a premises is adjudged to have corrected its food safety issue, with Prohibition Orders being listed for a period of one month from the date the Order was lifted.

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The new trial has been introduced to a select number of Centra stores across Ireland, with more locations to be added over the coming months. The partnership gives sustainability and value focused customers the opportunity to purchase ‘Surprise Bags’ of surplus food via the Too Good To Go app at a reduced price. Customers simply reserve their Surprise Bag on the app, collect from their local store at a pre-set time to take home, and in doing so, save food from being wasted.

As part of Centra’s sustainability strategy, Centra are delighted to partner with Too Good To Go who are on a mission to tackle food waste by connecting businesses who have unsold food to customers who can purchase a ‘Surprise Bag’ filled to the value of €12.00 minimum and sold at a discounted price, of €3.99 or €4.99 in select Centra stores. With convenience, sustainability, and value front of mind, the ‘Surprise Bag’ can include a selection of chilled meats, dairy, fruit and vegetables, salads, sandwiches, ready meals, and bakery items.

Speaking about the exciting new initiative Ian Allen, Managing Director, Centra said; “Centra’s collaboration with Too Good To Go is a great solution for the conscious consumer, it’s practical, easy to use and offers great value. This food waste initiative adds to Centra’s existing sustainability efforts on food waste, energy efficiency and packaging. We are proud to be leading the way amongst other convenience retailers in Ireland, eliminating waste where we can, and continuing to deliver our sustainability efforts into the future”. 

Recently Centra announced that 96% of its Own Brand packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable and is on track to reach its target of 100% by 2025. Other sustainability efforts made by Centra include 5.5M plastic bags being replaced with compostable bags. Centra is also investing €20m in energy and carbon reduction in stores on the path to Net Zero by 2040.

Speaking about the partnership, Sophie Trueman, Managing Director UK & Ireland of Too Good To Go said; “We’re thrilled to be officially trialling our partnership with Centra and to have their quality groceries now available to be saved via our platform in a number of trial stores. Too Good To Go is all about reducing food waste and in doing so, enabling people to access quality food in a more affordable way, and in a way that does right by our planet too”.

To avail of this new offering, consumers can simply download the free Too Good To Go app and search for their nearby Centra store with unsold food, purchase a ‘Surprise Bag’, collect it at their reserved time and take it home to enjoy.

Centra stores currently partaking in this new initiative include;

• Centra Parnell Street, Dublin
• Herlihy’s Centra Bishopstown, Cork
• Downey’s Centra, Portlaoise
• Herlihy’s Centra Grand Parade, Cork
• Herlihy’s Centra Fermoy, Co. Cork

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