Food Safety
Food Safety
There is a Food Safety Service Contract between Kilkenny County Council and Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). Since the 1st of January 2013, there is a shared veterinary service between Kilkenny County Council and Carlow County Council to cover food safety work. Under the contract Kilkenny County Council is an Official Agency of FSAI. There are delegated powers, duties and responsibilities to Kilkenny County Council as a Competent Authority. It is funded from national Exchequer through FSAI .
The duties and responsibilities for food safety activities are derived from the legislation listed in the Contract which include;
- the inspection, approval and registering of food premises and equipment
- provision of ante and post mortem inspections for each animal slaughtered at low- medium throughput slaughterhouses
- the inspection, sampling and analysis of food
- the inspection and analysis of food labelling
- provision of official controls to verify compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules
- participation in FSAI and interagency working groups
- interagency working e.g. Regional Zoonosis Committee, National Zoonosis Committee
- compliance with the multi-annual national control plan for Ireland
- continuing Professional Development
- internal auditing
- facilitation of external audits e.g. FVO , FSAI etc
- participation in the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
- data collection and reporting
- investigation of food borne outbreaks and incidents and involvement in Disease Outbreak Control teams where required
- participation in E.U. coordinated Control Plans e.g. Residue Sampling
In addition to the above, animal health and welfare issues are inspected, audited and controlled in such premises. Activities supervised include low to medium throughput slaughterhouses, meat cutting rooms, meat processing, sausage making, storage and distribution of meat and on farm slaughter of poultry etc
Application for Approval of Meat Establishments (PDF)
Application for the Registration of a Food Business (PDF)
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