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Food Safety

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) do trojan work in the whole area of food safety. Last week it announced details of communications received on their advice line in 2009. In total 9,444 communications were received, of which 1,981 (21%) were complaints from consumers. ...

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Jobs forecast

FÁS and the ESRI yesterday published its Occupational Employment Forecasts 2015 report. The full report is available here. Quoting from the report, the main points were: – Changes are likely in the sectoral and skills mix of employment. – While employment in most oc...

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European Global Fund (EGF)

SQT Training was one of many Training organisations that participated in a 2 day event organised by FAS, at the South Court Hotel, Limerick, to provide training options for people recently made unemployed by Dell, Banta and a few other local companies. The European Global Fund (...

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Food Allergen Control

To fully integrate allergen control measures into a food safety management system, all food business operators need to understand the fourteen allergens that must be labelled if present in food products as defined in legislation. According to the Food Safety Authority, an allerge...

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Quality counts

Toyota, the Japanese car manufacturer has certainly learnt that lesson. One can’t but feel slightly sorry for the company as it faces one of the biggest crises of its 77-year history. The company has been forced to recall millions of cars worldwide after it was discovered ...

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