Pygmalion served with closure notice by Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Seven food outlets, including well known cocktail bar Pygmalion, have been issued with orders to close by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI).

The Powerscourt Town House bar received the closure order on May 31 after an inspector spotted live rodent and fresh rodent droppings at the South William Street venue. The location will remain closed until the problem has been rectified, the FSAI have said.

The FSAI cited breaches regulations that took place in May in a new report. Four closures were served under the FSAI Act, while three were served under EU food regulations.

The inspector explained that these conditions could lead to a series of risks to food, one being the contamination with pathogenic bacteria, which if consumed by a human can cause disease.

Some of the reasons for the breaches included a lack of pest controls with live rodents and droppings spotted, incorrect temperature storage of high risk food (such as beef, chicken and pork dishes) and encrusted dirt and grease on surfaces.

Other reasons listed were no hot water in sinks, bacteria in some ready-to-eat foods, as well as an electric fly killer full of dead insects fixed directly above a production line.

Go Go Pizza and Kebab (Wexford), HG Ritchie Limited (manufacturer) in Inchicore and the Mart Café in Donegal were also served notices.

Those served under the European Union (Official Controls in Relation to Food Legislation) Regulations were:

Sillis Green Veg in Monaghan; Milne Foods Limited in Offaly and Golden Beach Supermarket on Parnell Street. The EU Prohibition Order was served to Bullet Duck & Dumpling on Little Mary Street, Dublin 7.