Three food businesses, including a branch of the German-owned supermarket chain Lidl, were forced to close for breaches of food safety legislation last month.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said closure orders were served on Lidl at Blakestown, Blanchardstown and on another Dublin business, Spiceland butcher shop at 4 Richmond Street South, Dublin 2.
A third closure order was served on Annabella Food Co-op Grocery, Market Square, Longford.
Closure orders are served by environmental health officers where there is, or is likely to be, a grave and immediate danger to public health due to food practices or conditions at a premises.
FSAI chief executive Dr John O’Brien said food businesses need to be more meticulous when it comes to compliance with food safely legislation, so that consumers are confident the food they are eating is safe and that industry is demonstrating best practice at all levels.
“We hope that every closure order served sends a clear signal to all food businesses that breaches in food safety requirements will not be tolerated,” he said.
Details of closure orders served on food businesses are published on the FSAI’s website, where they remain listed for three months from the date when the business corrects its food safety issue.