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FSAI Warn Recall Of M & S Smooth Butternut Squash Soup.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland warn of recall of a batch of M & S Smooth Butternut Squash Soup due to the possible presence of small pieces of metal.

Alert Summary dated Tuesday, October 1st 2024.

Category 1: For Action.
Alert Notification: 2024.45.
Product Identification: M & S Smooth Butternut Squash Soup; pack size: 600g.
Batch Code Use by 06/10/2024.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom.

Message: Marks & Spencer are recalling the above batch of its Smooth Butternut Squash Soup, due to the possible presence of small pieces of metal. Recall notices will be displayed at point-of-sale.

Action Required:
Retailers: Same are requested to remove the implicated batch from sale and display a recall notice at the point-of-sale.

Consumers: Customers are advised not to consume the implicated batch.

Incorrectly Declared Crustaceans & Fish On Tasty Nibbles Pickle Products.

Alert Summary dated Friday, September 27th 2024.

Allergy Alert Notification: 2024.A35
Allergens: Crustaceans and Fish
Product Identification: Tasty Nibbles Anchovy Pickle; pack size 400g; Tasty Nibbles Sardine Pickle; pack size 400g; Tasty Nibbles Prawn Pickle; pack size 400g
Batch Code: All batches and all best-before dates.

Message:
All batches of Tasty Nibbles Anchovy Pickle and Sardine Pickle contain fish which are incorrectly declared on the label. All batches of Tasty Nibbles Prawn Pickle contain crustaceans which are incorrectly declared on the label.

This may make the products unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of crustaceans and/or fish.

Recall Of Mlekpol Zloty Mazur Cheese – Possible Salmonella Newport.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland recall a batch of Mlekpol Zloty Mazur Cheese In Slices due to the possible presence of Salmonella Newport.

Alert Summary dated Thursday, September 26th 2024.

Category 1: For Action
Alert Notification: 2024.44
Product Identification: Mlekpol Zloty Mazur Cheese In Slices, pack size: 150g; approval number PL 20041601WE
Batch Code: 30.08/P6; best before date: 28/11/2024
Country Of Origin: Poland

Message:
The above batch of Mlekpol Zloty Mazur Cheese is being recalled due to the possible presence of Salmonella Newport. Recall notices will be displayed at point-of-sale.

Nature Of Danger:
People infected with Salmonella typically develop symptoms between 12 and 36 hours after infection, but this can range between 6 and 72 hours. The most common symptom is diarrhoea, which can sometimes be bloody. Other symptoms may include fever, headache and abdominal cramps. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days. Diarrhoea can occasionally be severe enough to require hospital admission. The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems are more likely to have a severe illness.

Action Required by Manufacturers, Distributors, Retailers and Consumers:

Wholesalers/Distributors are requested to contact their affected customers and recall the implicated batch and provide a point-of-sale recall notice to their retailer customers.
Retailers are requested to remove the implicated batch from sale and display a recall notice at point-of-sale.

Consumers: Are advised not to eat the implicated batch.

McDonalds Seek Planning On Lands At Slievenamon Road, Thurles.

McDonald’s Restaurants of Ireland Ltd intend to apply to Tipperary Co. Council for permission to develop lands on Slievenamon Road, latter adjoining the, as yet, unfunded Thurles Inner Relief road, at Thurles, in Co. Tipperary. (Latter beside the German International discount retailer Lidl, owned by the Schwarz Group).

From the site notice, erected by Ms Eva Bridgeman, (Agent-Downey, 29 Merrion Square, Dublin), first erected on September 20th last, we learn of McDonald’s proposed plans.

The development will consist of a single story ‘drive-thru’ restaurant, including the ancillary sales of hot food for consumption of and on the premises, with an associated coral area, elevated signage, with modifications to the existing vehicle access at the Thurles relief road.

Also required is car parking, including accessible parking spaces; grill bays; EV charging spaces; bicycle parking; a height restrictor; customer order points with associated canopies; totem signage (latter powerful external advertising platforms that act a bit like billboards); free standing signage; banner frames and digital menu boards; an ESB substation and kiosk; landscaping, including an outdoor furniture seating area with parasols; boundary treatments; lighting, and all associated site and engineering works necessary to facilitate the now sought development.

Currently there are 24 restaurant/takeaways in the just the side streets of this our much loved tiny town, each offering food daily for sale. [ 8 already on Slievenamon Road between Thurles Golf Club and the junction with Liberty Square; 2 on Parnell Street; 2 on Bakers Street; 3 on Friar Street; 3 on Kickham Street and Dublin Road; 3 on Mitchel Street; 2 and possibly a 3rd due to open on Cathedral Street, and 1 on O’Donovan-Rossa Street.]
Then there are the 13 excellent establishments/outlets all daily selling food on Liberty Square in the town centre.

Add this to the fact that Tipperary Co. Council will shortly become the proud landlords of 2 competing restaurants in the town, courtesy of taxpayer funding, (one currently under construction, as part of a 3.4 million Euro project, and currently delayed by the Pipistrelles Bat species and a gang of unruly, rowdy house sparrows), and both currently unable as yet to attract a long term tenant.

This brings the total number of establishments equipped to retail food in Thurles town to 39 outlets, As our readers will understand, the town economy really needs now is a drive-thru restaurant positioned on a non funded, non-existent inner relief road, to bring the total number of food outlets to that nice round figure of 40.

The phrase “a nation of shopkeepers” was an expression used to refer to the United Kingdom in 1794, used in a derogatory sense by French revolutionary Bertrand Barère. Today one could refer to Thurles as “a town of food outlets”.

FSAI Warn Presence Of Peanut in Green Cuisine Mustard Powder.

FSAI Warn Possible Presence Of Peanut in Batch Of Green Cuisine Mustard Powder.

Alert Summary dated Tuesday, September 24th 2024.

Allergy Alert Notification: 2024.A34
Allergen: Peanut
Product Identification: Green Cuisine Mustard Powder; pack size: 40g
Batch Code: Best before date: 16/5/2027
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Message:
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland warn that the above batch of Green Cuisine Mustard Powder may contain peanut, which is not declared in the list of ingredients. This may make the batch unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of peanut.