New info pack for food businesses
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today published an information pack containing a range of leaflets to assist compliance by food businesses with the requirements of new EU food hygiene Regulations which came into force on January 1.
The new EU food law is applicable to over 40,000 food businesses in Ireland and the farming community.
The new food law brings together 17 previous EU Hygiene Directives into five new pieces of legislation. The legislation introduces a "farm to fork" approach to food safety.
It also puts the legal obligation on the food businesses to bear the full responsibility for the safety of food produced.
The four leaflets included in the information pack produced by the FSAI are entitled Key Principles and Obligations for Food Businesses; General Food Law; Regulation on Microbiological Criteria; Regulation for Restaurants, Caterers, Retail and Wholesale Operators and Regulation for Premises Handling Products of Animal Origin.
The leaflets outline in simple terms the legal obligations on food businesses.
The FSAI has a section on its website www.fsai.ie/legislation that provides further advice and will be continually updated as more information becomes available from the EU and Irish Government departments.
