Seven food businesses ordered to shut last month

SEVEN food businesses, including three restaurants, a delicatessen and a pub, were shut down by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland last month.

These included Tom Costello’s poultry slaughtering facility at Old Town Hospital in Co. Limerick and Sunrise Indian and European Takeaway in Bunbeg, Co. Donegal. JD’s delicatessen in Rathcoole Shopping Mall, Co. Dublin, saw an order for closed activity involving the preparation and sale of hot and cold foods at the deli counter at their store.

John Doyle’s public house on Phibsborough Road, Dublin was ordered to cease all activities regarding the preparation and service of foods at the premises.

Other business issued with closure orders included Dynasty Restaurant in Skibereen, Co. Cork, Moonsoon Restaurant in Collon, Co. Louth, and Tasty Bites of 281 Hyde Road, Limerick.

Overall some 106 enforcement orders were served on food businesses for breaches in food safety legislation in 2015, compared with 113 in 2014, a decrease of 6%.

Of the seven closure orders issued last month, three have since been lifted. Tasty Bites’s order was served on December 18 and lifted five days later, while Sunrise Indian and European Takeaway saw their closure order revoked on December 21, again five days after it was issued.

And finally, Dynasty Restaurant’s closure order lasted just one day after it was issued on December 9. It was lifted 24 hours later.