FIVE RESTAURANTS, including two takeaway businesses were closed last month for posing “a grave and immediate danger” to public health, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has said.
A further three businesses were served with prohibition orders, forcing them to withdraw certain meat products from the market.
Separately, an Indian restaurant in Castleknock, Dublin, was fined €6,640 for breaching food hygiene regulations.
Four of the five restaurants closed for breaches of food safety legislation were in Dublin, while the fifth was in Cork.
The Dublin restaurants were the Buddha Restaurant, Belgard Square, Tallaght; Yuki House take-away, Townsend Street; Taste of Africa, Moore Street; and The Tasty Grill, Richmond Street South. In Cork the Tasty Bite, Freemount, Charleville, was closed. The closure orders were subsequently lifted on four of the restaurants after they complied with orders served by environmental officers, but the Taste of Africa restaurant remains closed.
A large volume of meat products stored and prepared at the Wang Yan Xue premises at Fassaugh Road in Cabra and Parnell Street in Dublin have been banned from sale.
Mr Xiaoqiang (Jack) Chen has been prohibited from selling meat processed at his former home in Dublin city centre.
The owners of Surya Indian Restaurant above Bradys, Castleknock Inn, pleaded guilty in court to seven breaches of food hygiene regulations last month and paid €6,640 in fines.
FSAI chief executive Prof Alan Reilly said poor food hygiene practices would not be tolerated. “This cannot be accepted at any level, and we will continue to operate a zero tolerance policy to poor and inadequate food-safety practices.”
