Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) recall of a batch of Spar Old Irish Creamery Cheddar with Chilli, due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
Alert Summary dated Wednesday, 19 February 2025.
Category 1: For Action. Alert Notification: 2025.09. Product Identification: Spar Old Irish Creamery Cheddar with Chilli. Pack size: 150g. Approval number: IE 1059 EC. Batch Code Best before: 25.05.2025. Country Of Origin: Ireland.
Message: The above batch of Spar Old Irish Creamery Cheddar with Chilli is being recalled due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes. Recall notices will be displayed at point-of-sale.
Nature Of Danger: Symptoms of Listeria monocytogenes infection can include mild flu-like symptoms, or gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. In rare cases, the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications. Some people are more vulnerable to Listeria monocytogenes infections, including pregnant women, babies, and people with weakened immune systems, including the elderly. The incubation period (time between initial infection and first symptoms appearing) is on average 3 weeks but can range between 3 and 70 days.
Action Required fromRetailers: Retailers: Same are requested to remove the implicated batch from sale and display recall notices at point-of-sale.
Consumers: Consumers are advised not to eat the implicated batch of cheese.
Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) recall of specific batches of various Old Irish Creamery Cheese cheddar cheese products due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
Alert Summary dated Wednesday, 19th February 2025.
Category 1: For Action Alert Notification: 2025.10 Product Identification: List of implicated Old Irish Creamery Cheese cheddar cheese products and batches. CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL EXTENDED LISTING – including Product Name; Best-before date, and Pack size. Approval number: IE 1059 EC Batch Code: Please see attached list. Country Of Origin: Ireland
Message: The attached list of Old Irish Creamery Cheese cheddar cheese products are being recalled due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes. Recall notices will be displayed at point-of-sale.
Nature Of Danger: Symptoms of Listeria monocytogenes infection can include mild flu-like symptoms, or gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. In rare cases, the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications. Some people are more vulnerable to Listeria monocytogenes infections, including pregnant women, babies, and people with weakened immune systems, including the elderly. The incubation period (time between initial infection and first symptoms appearing) is on average 3 weeks but can range between 3 and 70 days.
Wholesalers/distributors: Same are requested to contact their affected customers and recall the implicated batches and provide a point-of-sale recall notice to their retail customers. Caterers: Same should not use the implicated batches. Retailers: Same are requested to remove the implicated batches from sale and display recall notices at point-of-sale. Consumers:Consumers are advised not to eat the implicated batches of cheese.
Food Safety Authotity of Ireland warn of undeclared milk in specific batches of Boundless Sour Cream and Onion Flavour Chips.
Alert Summary dated Tuesday, February 18th 2025.
Allergy Alert Notification: 2025.A03 Allergen: Milk Product Identification: Boundless Sour Cream and Onion Flavour Chips; pack size: 80g Country Of Origin: United Kingdom Batch Code: Please see table hereunder.
Batch code
Best before date
31724
30. 11. 2025.
32424
30. 11. 2025.
34624
31. 12. 2025.
34724
31. 12. 2025.
Message: The above batches of Boundless Sour Cream and Onion Flavour Chips contain milk which is not declared in the list of ingredients. This may make the batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of milk.
The Department of Agriculture have issued an order to house poultry flocks and other captive birds, same coming into effect from today, in an effort to protect them from Avian influenza.
This order follows five detections of Avian influenza virus; more commonly called bird flu, found in wild birds across Ireland since December 2024 last.
Detections have already been identified in counties Galway and Dublin last December, with three further cases pinpointed in January of this year in counties Donegal, Westmeath and Wexford.
Following these identified cases, the Department of Agriculture has announced this immediate housing order to protect poultry flocks and captive birds from mixing with wild birds, who may be infected by the virus.
All ready in Northern Ireland, 64,000 birds are set to be slaughtered at one commercial poultry unit, situated in Co. Tyrone, following the discovery of a suspected case.
According to the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre, [HPSC] Avian influenza or “bird flu” is a disease of birds caused by type A strains of the influenza virus. It can affect all species of birds, some other animals (e.g. cats, horses) and can, although very rarely, infect humans. Only the virus types of the H5 and H7 types are known to cause the highly pathogenic (HPAI) form of the disease. The most well-known example is the avian influenza subtype H5N1 viruses, currently circulating in poultry in parts of Asia and north-east Africa, which have caused human disease and deaths since 1997. Other avian influenza subtypes, including H7N9 and H9N2, have also infected people. Some of these infections have been very severe and some have resulted in deaths, but many infections have been mild or even without symptoms in humans. To date, Hong Kong has reported 21 cases of H7N9 in humans, all traced to mainland China and involving contact with poultry.
A Tipperary family has now settled their High Court action, taken against the HSE seeking €600,000, following the death of a 51-year-old father of five, just days after a road traffic accident.
The High Court heard that a significant small bowel injury was overlooked completely by staff at Cork University Hospital.
Then patient, Mr Patrick Connolly slowly deteriorated before dying of a heart attack, while in the care of staff at Cork University Hospital, five days after the tragic road accident outside Tipperary town on December 28th, 2021.
The court were informed that no particular attention was paid to a bowel injury in the hospital and Mr Connolly’s health gradually deteriorated. Mr Connolly was in a lot of pain, was vomiting and had two heart attacks. He died after his second heart attack on January 2nd, 2022. The HSE admitted that Mr Connolly had a small bowel perforation that was not diagnosed in a timely manner.
The health service also admitted that if a laparoscopic assessment had been carried out at any time from Mr Connolly’s admission to hospital, until the time of his first heart attack, there would have been a high likelihood of him surviving the accident.
The collision had occurred when a car driven by Ms Mary Lowry, latter a central witness in the Mr Moonlight murder trial, had collided with a motorcycle ridden by Mr Patrick Connolly; with his son as a pillion passenger.
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