Food Safety Authority of Ireland

📢Today FSAI team members Chloe Glennon, Technical Executive, and Jamie Wilson, SFI Fellow, are both presenting at the Hellenic Food Authority Conference. 🍽️📚They'll discuss the Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s Risk Ranking Model for Microbiological and Chemical Contaminants in Food. 📊 Chloe and Jamie are looking forward to sharing their insights! 💡

There is a current vacancy on the FSAI's Audit and Risk Committee for an external non-Board member. The FSAI is inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified candidates to fill this vacancy, bringing independent value and enhancing the overall effectiveness of the committee. For more information, see https://ow.ly/Vr6K50UeNz6

🕵️♂️🔍 Keeping pests out of your food business is key to food safety! 🚫🐀 You must have adequate pest control in place to protect your business and your customers. 🍽️✅ 👉 Find out more here: https://ow.ly/kJXq50Ua2NT #FoodSafety #FSAI #PestControl

💡 Did you know? The FSAI's Learning Portal provides training courses, resources, and materials that will help you keep up to date with food safety. 🚀🍽️ 👨🍳 Whether you're running a food business or a food safety inspector, the learning materials have been designed so that they can fit into your schedule or can be used as part of staff meetings to keep your staff up to date on food safety topics. ✅ Visit https://lnkd.in/eSmJV6MS to learn more!

📣The FSAI today has published a guidance note on the approval of food establishments. This cross-agency guidance is intended to increase consistency in the way competent authorities approve food businesses by clearly setting out the principles to be followed when approving a food business and keeping the approval under review. 👉To read the guidance note, please see: https://ow.ly/MFgV50UbVcU

📣 The Food Reformulation Task Force, a strategic partnership between Healthy Ireland and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, will host a free event “Pathways and Progress: Achievements in Food Reformulation” at the Convention Centre, Dublin. 🍽️👨🍳 This in-person event is open to food manufacturers, retailers, the out-of-home food service sector, and others with an interest in food reformulation in Ireland. ✍️The event will include a keynote address on the intersection between food reformulation and sustainability, case study presentations from the food industry highlighting work currently being undertaken in food reformulation and overviews of national supports available for reformulation by Teagasc and Enterprise Ireland. 👉 To view the agenda and register your attendance, please see here: https://ow.ly/QilW50Ub0LS

🍴 Starting a Food Business? Let’s Talk Training! ✍️ If you’re planning to handle food, make sure you’re up to date on your legal requirements. All food handlers must be supervised, instructed, and/or trained in food hygiene according to their role. ✅ There are plenty of ways to meet these requirements—find what works best for you! Learn more here: https://ow.ly/U1mv50U9S79

🎤 Today, Jane Ryder, Communications Manager at FSAI, is speaking to students at Dundalk Institute of Technology. 📢 Jane will share her expertise on 'Risk Communications' with students from the BA in Digital Marketing & Strategic Communication and the BA in Digital Marketing & Public Relations. 🌟🎓 Jane is looking forward to sharing her expertise with the next generation of strategic communicators. 💡 #FSAI #PublicRelations #RiskCommunication #StrategicCommunication

📢 Recently, FSAI staff from the Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Building and Enforcement Policy teams were delighted to host the Dublin Food Centres Network, supporting them to empower their business clients with essential knowledge about food safety.   🍽 The visit covered a range of topics from Ireland’s Food Safety Controls System to the supportive resources the FSAI provides all Irish Food Businesses.   👉 For more information on our business supports, please see: https://lnkd.in/egW-Zz27

💡 Funding Opportunities in the EFSA 2025/26 Workplan 💡 Interested in learning about the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) evolving partnership strategy and upcoming funding opportunities? Register for their online event on 6 December, 10.00am to 12:30pm (CET). The event will provide a comprehensive overview of EFSA's plan to strengthen scientific cooperation with Competent Organisations across the EU member states, Norway and Iceland, as well as its grant and procurement mechanism and its network of Focal Points. Participants will also get an early look at EFSA’s draft work plan for 2025/26 and the calls for grants and procurement that it includes. Registration closes on 4 December. Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/JuiE50U6KCC