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The handling of the recent pork crisis by the Government has been lambasted as not good enough by Fine Gael councillor and pork wholesaler Cllr Tom Connolly. The Claremorris based councillor was not mincing his words when he spoke to the Mayo Advertiser this week. “The whole handling of the situation has been messed up from the beginning. While food safety is of the utmost importance to everyone involved in the industry the way this has been dealt with has been a massive blow to the industry in a time of economic turmoil. It’s been almost a week since the recall was announced and now only today (Thursday, December 11) are things getting back to normal. But you’re still looking at it being the middle of the week next week before things get back to normal.”

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

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.

Galway Free Range Eggs has moved to reassure consumers of the quality of its product following the news that a businessman who runs an unrelated firm is facing fraud charges in the UK over the distribution of eggs falsely labelled as free range or organic.

Safefood has launched a new campaign to highlight common and widespread poor food hygiene practices in the home, as new research revealed that 84 per cent of people did not thoroughly wash their hands after handling raw chicken.

Eighty four per cent of people do not wash their hands properly after handling raw chicken, according to new research from food safety group safefood. In its recent survey on food safety in the home, the organisation found that 72 per cent of people did not properly wash the knife used in preparing raw chicken before reuse on salad vegetables.

Leading egg company Galway Free Range Eggs has this week announced its sponsorship of Paul Hession, the international 100m and 200m sprinter who represented Ireland at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

One of the west’s most popular bakers and confectioners, O’Hara’s of Foxford, has proven once again that quality is at the heart of its business by securing a prestigious international award for food safety.

Beef farmers will get a boost from the re-opening of the United Arab Emirates market to Irish beef according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.