Food Safety Authority of Ireland

LivelineDipso

Of all the seemingly endless numbers of QUANGOS in this country the FSAI is the most silly. They have god knows how many staff and pay them god knows how much money to state important facts such as:

Wash your hands before making dinner
Eat less chinese food and you won't consume as much salt as if you eat a lot of chinese food
There are bacteria in many foods - some are scary!
There is food which is delicious and healthy too.


Why do we need this 'authority' to tell us what we already know?

Sauve

You'd be surprised at how many people actually need to be told this stuff.
It's frightening.

Max Power

Road Safety Authority is another one.

RSA: "Always stop at a stop sign".

Really? Well I'll be damned. Waste of fucking money the lot of them.

Hippies!

I wish I was in a QUANGO

franktheplank

Mmmmm Chinese.

Regarding you're post, I suppose it keeps em off the dole. There's hole swathes of publicly funded jobs we could do without imho.

LivelineDipso

Sauve wrote: »

You'd be surprised at how many people actually need to be told this stuff.
It's frightening.

You would even more suprised how easy it is to get this information out without if requiring a huge staff with offices, salaries, jobs for life and company cars.

An ad on RTE saying. "Wash your hands" is enough.

No recession in QUANGOland.

AnarchistKen

I agree.

Money would be better spent on suicide prevention rather than how to cook a chicken fillet.

9959

I actually didn't know that Chinese food was bad for you, thanks a bunch!

Back to traditional Fish 'n' Chips for me then, with lashings of salt and vinegar.

Chips Lovell

Umm, that's only part of what the Food Safety Authority does. They also go around shutting down dodgy restaurants. For example:

Between 1st January and 31st December 2012, enforcement officers served 91 Closure Orders, three Improvement Orders and 15 Prohibition Orders on food businesses throughout the country. This compares with 66 Closure Orders, seven Improvement Orders and 11 Prohibition Orders issued in 2011.

Pottler

Half the staff there misunderstood the brief and spend their days protecting carrots from falling objects. No-ones had the heart to put them straight.

franktheplank

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Umm, that's only part of what the Food Safety Authority does. They also go around shutting down dodgy restaurants. For example:

Ok, I can see the importance of that. Doesn't mean we need a separate authority to do it.

Sure aren't there plenty of nurses, community workers, teachers and so on, doin feck all that could go around nd shut down manky chippers.

Big Nasty

LivelineDipso wrote: »

QUANGOS

Giggidy, giggidy, goo!

Am I doing it right?

Death and Taxes

LivelineDipso wrote: »

Of all the seemingly endless numbers of QUANGOS in this country the FSAI is the most silly. They have god knows how many staff and pay them god knows how much money to state important facts such as:

Wash your hands before making dinner
Eat less chinese food and you won't consume as much salt as if you eat a lot of chinese food
There are bacteria in many foods - some are scary!
There is food which is delicious and healthy too.


Why do we need this 'authority' to tell us what we already know?

It is difficult to overstate just how misleading your post is.
The FSAI carry out thousands of inspectios of premises every year, the regularly close down those who are engaging in unhygenic and dangerous actions.
So yes , we need them, they are the people whose job it is to protect us against mass e-coli contamation !

PizzamanIRL

Something kind of related - Are cans that you drink from full of bacteria?

MadsL

LivelineDipso wrote: »

Of all the seemingly endless numbers of QUANGOS in this country the FSAI is the most silly. They have god knows how many staff and pay them god knows how much money to state important facts such as:

Wash your hands before making dinner
Eat less chinese food and you won't consume as much salt as if you eat a lot of chinese food
There are bacteria in many foods - some are scary!
There is food which is delicious and healthy too.


Why do we need this 'authority' to tell us what we already know?

Idk, why don't you post how many staff and tell us how much they are paid? If it is 3 staff and they are on €25k eack that would appear to be good value. How about a bit of research before poking them with a stick?

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Something kind of related - Are cans that you drink from full of bacteria?

Unless any food item is pasteurized and sealed, it is naturally full of bacteria. Some of those are good for you like yogurt, others like raw chicken not so much.
The normal way to deal with bad bacteria is to cook food to a safe internal temperature, normally 74C/165F for poultry. However if you cook food long and slow - slowcooker or sousvide for instance then temperatures can be lower as longer exposure to heat kills more bacteria.

However, you do not need to cremete the crap out of steaks, please stop doing that.

Food safety is vastly simplified by food safety organisations to the highest temp for idiots and 165F/74C internal temp in many proteins will mean it is overdone.

Best to learn what cooking techniques need high/low temps and buy a decent probe.

Recluse

I have a cat called quango:D
She enjoys walking on kitchen tables, licking taps etc.
Maybe the FSAI could have a talk with her for me.

Pottler

MadsL wrote: »

Unless any food item is pasteurized and sealed, it is naturally full of bacteria. Some of those are good for you like yogurt, others like raw chicken not so much.
The normal way to deal with bad bacteria is to cook food to a safe internal temperature, normally 74C/165F for poultry. However if you cook food long and slow - slowcooker or sousvide for instance then temperatures can be lower as longer exposure to heat kills more bacteria.

However, you do not need to cremete the crap out of steaks, please stop doing that.

Food safety is vastly simplified by food safety organisations to the highest temp for idiots and 165F/74C internal temp in many proteins will mean it is overdone.

Best to learn what cooking techniques need high/low temps and buy a decent probe.

....goes off to start petition to get MadsL instated as new, clearer replacement for the Carrot watcher crowd...

MaxSteele

Health and safety inspectors can be quite patronizing and irritating. I remember one came into a hotel I used to work in and tell members of staff how to clean a pint glass FFS. Told a veteran barman that he wasn't doing it right while she was nosying on him.

I understand your frustrations OP.

goat2

Death and Taxes wrote: »

It is difficult to overstate just how misleading your post is.
The FSAI carry out thousands of inspectios of premises every year, the regularly close down those who are engaging in unhygenic and dangerous actions.
So yes , we need them, they are the people whose job it is to protect us against mass e-coli contamation !

we can feel happy to eat out when we have people watching over the hygiene of restaurants and food outlets,

Tombi!

Mod: I'll give you some good advice: threads are like food. You don't wanna post in an out of date thread just like you don't want to eat out of date food

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