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Updated 16.10pm
A RESTAURANT IN Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, County Meath was issued with a closure order last month.
C.C’s Coffee Dock was ordered to close by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) under the European Commissions Official Control of Foodstuffs Regulations, 2010.
A statement from the HSE confirmed that the coffee dock was closed due a pest control issue.
The issue of pest control is treated very seriously by Hospital Management and every effort is made to ensure premises are free from vermin and other pests and to ensure that measures are in place to control access points, particularly at ground floor level and particularly during maintenance and construction projects.
It added that hospitals, as part of the ongoing maintenance and environmental hygiene management, contract specialist pest control companies to undertake regular inspections.
The HSE said the enforcement notice was lifted at 5pm on Saturday 4 April, after compliance with the actions recommended by the Environmental Health Officer.
The closure order is just one of eight enforcement notices served on food businesses in April.
Immediate closures
Seven closure orders were issued to the following businesses:
One Prohibition Order was also served on fish processor, Shellfish De La Mer on Dinish Island, Castletownbere, Cork.
Dr Bernard Hegarty, Director of Service Contracts, FSAI, states that food businesses need to be vigilant at all times in relation to food safety to ensure full compliance with food legislation.
“Food safety must be paramount. Time and time again, there are instances where food businesses are potentially putting their customers’ health at risk by not complying with their legal obligations for food safety and hygiene.”
He said that food businesses must recognise that the legal onus is on them to make sure that the food they serve is safe to eat.
Orders may be lifted when the premises have improved to the satisfaction of the authorised officer.
Closure orders remain listed 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.
First published 11.43am
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Once again I say “Thank you” to FSAI inspectors.
Well done folks.
Just doing their simple job.
How many are they missing?
We don’t know..
The irony. A hospital cafe with a health issue.
Is there one public hospital in Ireland that doesn’t have a horror story attached to it?
Nope, the HSE have seen to that. I never remember hearing about half as many horror stories when the health boards and matrons were in charge
Maybe all the prayers sent Minister Leo’s way will help fix the issues because Varadkar is doing damn all about it.
It’s an independently run cafe in the hospital, is it not? Nothing to do with the HSE, I don’t think.
I know personally of two Paul, my mother having been a patient of both.
Marymount university hospital and hospice, cork, spotless and award winning restaurant.
St Brigid’s district hospital, Carrick on suir, co. Tipp.
Both have in-house kitchens preparing fresh home cooked meals every day.
Neither use outside caterers, all staff employed by the HSE.
Suppose its the best place to get food poisoning really.
I’ll have one order of food poisoning please and that trolley to wait on for the next 48 hours
48 hours? You must have private cover to think you’ll be seen so quickly
It would be wishful thinking
That Shellfish de la Mer seems to make a regular appearance in the list.
Shellfish de la Merd, more like.
There’s a rat in me kitchen what am I gonna do? I’m gonna fix that rat thats what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna fix that rat. There’s a song in that somewhere!!!
The restaurant is in the hospital building itself and it was a rat that had fallen through the ceiling. God only knows how many more rats are running around the building. At every opportunity, the HSE have and are trying to get rid of the hospital and get everyone to travel to Drogheda to an already overcrowded hospital. Anyway, The rat was reported weeks ago in the Meath Chronicle, google it and you will read the full story.
I will Google it Keith. What was the rat’s name?
I think it was Roland!
That whole hospital is a disaster brand me a and e but still most patients transfared to droghada …madness
You must not know the same hospital I know then, the hospital, despite surviving with a skeletal staff, is actually very well run, all credit to the staff themselves and not the HSE of course.
Are the journal.ie now posting headlines from the Meath Chronicle two weeks ago! ? Lazy journalism!
Just drumming up business for the hospital, #tinfoilhatbrigade
Might we enquire who the franchisee is, of “CC’s Coffee Dock”?
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