Food Safety Authority of Ireland is responsible for ensuring food safety compliance with legal requirements. It protects consumers and raises compliance through partnership, science, and food law enforcement.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Food Safety Authority of Ireland | 36,216 followers on LinkedIn. Safe and Trustworthy Food for Everyone | Our vision at the Food Safety Authority Ireland (FSAI) is safe and trustworthy food for everyone and our mission is protecting consumers by leading a collaborative food safety community to continuously raise food standards and create a culture of excellence.  We place consumers at the centre of all our activities.  Consumers have a fundamental right to safe food and also that they are not being misled about the food they are purchasing or eating.

former Director of Communication and Marketing at University College Dublin

Eilis O'Brien

Director of Corporate Operations

Kevin Roantree

Senior Lecturer, Culinary Arts TU Dublin-Tallaght Campus. Professional Doctorate Scholar(Positive Health Sciences) RCSI Ireland

Annette Sweeney

Senior Food Scientist at Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Lisa O'Connor

📲 Selling or advertising food online? 📲 Make sure you’re meeting food safety standards! 🍽️💻 👉 Check out out website to find out the mandatory information you must provide to the consumer when selling food online: https://ow.ly/M28V50U25Rs #FoodSafety #SellingFoodOnline #OnlineFoodBusiness #FSAI

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European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Recently, the FSAI virtually held the inaugural meeting of the ‘eCommerce and Online Food Business Forum’. The event welcomed attendees and key members from industry including online food businesses, food delivery aggregators, online platforms, and trade associations. The objective of the Forum is to provide a platform for open dialogue and interaction for all attendees to address regulatory opportunities and developments and to promote consistency and responsible practices in the online food business sector. Topics discussed in the meeting included an overview of the Official Controls Regulation 2017/625 and the work that is undertaken in European eCommerce working groups including the Heads of Food Safety Agencies (HoA) eCommerce Working Group. The keynote speaker, Dana Paraschiv , Director of Regulatory Operations Coimisiún na Meán , presented to the group on the important provisions of the Digital Service Act 2024, the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act, and Coimisiún na Meán’s regulatory remit and powers within the online food sector and legislative framework. Thank you to all attendees for the engagement and contributions. We look forward to the next meeting of the Forum early 2025 with this diverse group of representatives, and for the compliance building opportunities that lie ahead. If a suitable organisation would like to be represented in the next meeting of the Forum, please get in touch by sending an email to ecommerceindustryforum@fsai.ie

📢 Last month, Ireland took a leading role at the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) in Germany! Dr Mary Flynn , Chief Specialist in Public Health Nutrition, and Niamh Clarke, Technical Executive in Public Health Nutrition Policy at FSAI, represented Ireland in this globally impactful event. 👏 2024 marks a milestone as Ireland became the first EU Member State to lead the chair position for Agenda Items at CCNFSDU. The work chaired by Ireland was the main Agenda Item at CCNFSDU and Ireland also chaired a day-long physical Working Group prior to the meeting. Since 2017, Ireland has chaired the development of Nutrient Reference Values on Requirement (NRVs-R) to ensure safe labelling of foods for infants and young children aged 6–36 months, working with co-chairs Costa Rica and the USA to bring this to life. The CCNFSDU's work focuses on creating international guidelines to protect consumers, with a large proportion of the work carried out by this Committee focusing on infant and young child nutrition. This collaboration aims to support informed caregiver choices for these vulnerable groups, leading the way for a safer global food supply. 🌍🤝 Stay tuned as this vital work continues — Ireland will carry on leading the Working Group on this agenda item which is expected to be completed at CCNFSDU in October 2026🏅 #FSAI #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #CCNFSDU44 #Nutrition

Whether it's prepacked or non-prepacked, food businesses must clearly display allergen information to protect consumers. 🍽️👀 Watch our video to learn the requirements for allergen labeling in Ireland! 🌟🍲 👉 Find out more here: https://ow.ly/O3ky50TXPZ2 #FoodAllergens #StaySafe #FoodSafety

🎃 Happy Halloween from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland! 🎃 Wishing you a fun and safe Halloween night 🍬👻 🎃 Oíche Shamhna Shona ó Údarás Sábháilteachta Bia na hÉireann! 🎃 Oíche Shamhna spraíúil agus shábháilte a ghuí oraibh 🍬👻

🚨 Did you know? Under Irish law, 14 allergens must be declared on food labels. 1. Cereals containing gluten (e.g., wheat, rye, barley, oats) 🌾 2. Crustaceans (e.g., crabs, prawns, lobsters) 🦐 3. Eggs 🥚 4. Fish 🐟 5. Peanuts 🥜 6. Soybeans 🌱 7. Milk 🥛 8. Nuts (e.g., almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, brazil nuts, pistachios, macadamia) 🌰 9. Celery 🥬 10. Mustard 🧴 11. Sesame seeds 🌿 12. Sulphur dioxide and sulphites ⚠️ 13. Lupin 🌻 14. Molluscs (e.g., mussels, oysters, squid, snails) 🦪 #AllergenAwareness #FoodSafety #FoodBusiness

What a week! Thanks to all our Public Service colleagues who got behind #TransformationWeek again this year to tell their stories of transformation in action and support our ambition of #BetterPublicServices for all. 🙏 🙏 🙏

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