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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has served a closure order on a Ballyhaunis butchers for breaches of food safety.

The National Standards Authority of Ireland in conjunction with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, has launched a revised standard for bottled (or packaged) water to reflect recent changes in European and national legislation on food hygiene and traceability requirements.

The Advertising Standards Association (ASA) in the UK has hit out at the advertisement for Maltesers that tells consumers that Maltesers contain less than 11 kcals per sweet. This is not because it is factually wrong but more because it portrays Maltesers as a healthy low energy snack. A product can only be described as this if it contains less than 40 calories per 100g; Maltesers contain 505 per 100g. Mars, who manufacture Maltesers, claimed it was a factual reference to calories and did not suggest the sweets were low energy - decide for yourself!

The pork meat scandel has escalated in recent days following the news that 'the type of oil used in the pig meal processing factory at County Carlow was inappropriate for the type of operation' which was was carrying out.

Carlow County Council has carried out inspections of the feed processor at the centre of the Irish pork crisis.

Springfield Stores, Mullingar was one of five food businesses nationwide to be served with closure orders during January.

Fat is necessary for life but unfortunately many of us consume the wrong types of fat. Our intake of different fats has changed markedly during the last century. We eat far more saturated fats and vegetable oils which contain omega-6 fatty acids, whereas our intake of fatty fish oils (omega-3) has decreased by 80 per cent during the last 80 years. We eat much less fish today, so most of us suffer from a deficiency of omega-3 fatty oils.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland stated on Thursday that four closure orders and one prohibition order were served on food businesses during the month of February for breaches of food safety legislation pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998, with one of these closures being made in Belmullet.

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