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FSAI Warn Of Undeclared Allergens In Bao Long Soup Seasonings.

Food Safety Authority Of Ireland Warn Of Undeclared Allergens In Specific Batches Of Various Bao Long Soup Seasonings.

Alert Summary dated Thursday, July 10th 2025.

Allergy Alert Notification: 2025.A27
Allergens: Soybeans, crustaceans, cereals containing gluten, as per table shown
hereunder.
Product Identification: Please see table below.
Batch Code: Please see table below.
Country Of Origin: Vietnam

Product name.Pack size.Batch codeAllergens.
Bao Long Chicken Noodle Soup Seasoning.75g.2301.Soybeans.
Bao Long Hue Noodle Soup Seasoning.75g.2302.Crustaceans.
Bao Long Vegan Pho Soup Seasoning.75g.2315.Soybeans.
Bao Long Vegan Hu Tieu Soup Seasoning.75g.2316.Soybeans and cereals containing gluten (wheat).

Message: The above batches of Bao Long Soup Seasonings contain some allergens that are not declared on the label. This may make the implicated batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of soya, cereals containing gluten (wheat) and/or crustaceans.
Therefore, these consumers should not eat the implicated batches. The affected batches are being recalled.


FSAI Warn Of Soya In Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) warn of possible presence of soya in specific batches of Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce.

Alert Summary dated Friday, July 4th 2025.

Allergy Alert Notification: 2025.A26.
Allergen: Soybeans.
Product Identification: Please see table below.
Batch Code: Please see table below.
Country Of Origin: Philippines
.

Message: The below batches of Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce may contain soya, which is not declared on the label. This may make the batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of soya, and therefore, these consumers should not eat the implicated batches.

Product name.Pack size.Batch code.Best before date.
Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce Hot.330g.2878.All best before dates.
Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce Regular.330g.2879.All best before dates.
Mang Tomas All Purpose Sauce Regular.330g.2881.All best before dates.

FSAI Recall Bacon & Cabbage Dinners Produced By Ballymaguire Foods.

Recall of various branded Bacon & Cabbage Dinners produced by Ballymaguire Foods due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes

Alert Summary dated Monday, 30 June 2025.

Category 1: For Action
Alert Notification: 2025.32
Product Identification: Please see table below.
Batch Code: All pack sizes, all batch codes and all use by dates.
Country Of Origin: Ireland

Message: The below Bacon & Cabbage Dinners are being recalled due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes. Recall notices will be displayed at points-of-sale.

Product Name.Approval Number.
Centra Bacon & Cabbage Dinner.4008.
From The Farm Bacon & Cabbage Dinner.4008.
Good Food Bacon & Cabbage Dinner.4008.
SuperValu Bacon & Cabbage Dinner.4008.
Tesco Bacon & Cabbage Dinner.4008.

Nature Of Danger: Symptoms of Listeria monocytogenes infection can include mild flu-like symptoms, or gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. In rare cases, the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications. Some people are more vulnerable to Listeria monocytogenes infections, including pregnant women, babies, and people with weakened immune systems, including the elderly. The incubation period (time between initial infection and first symptoms appearing) is on average 3 weeks but can range between 3 and 70 days.

Action Required by Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Distributors, Caterers & Retailers:

Retailers: Same are requested to remove the implicated Bacon & Cabbage Dinners from sale and display recall notices at point-of-sale.
Wholesalers/Distributors: Same are requested to contact their affected customers and recall the implicated Bacon & Cabbage Dinners and provide a point-of-sale recall notice to their retailer customers.
Caterers: Same should not use the implicated Bacon & Cabbage Dinners.
Consumers: Same are advised not to eat the implicated Bacon & Cabbage Dinners.

Plan On Domestic, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Launched.

Final Implementation Plan For Zero Tolerance Strategy On Domestic, Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Published.

  • Priority areas include expanding refuge accommodation, advancing legislative reform, and cross-sectoral training initiatives for frontline professionals.
  • There are 95 actions in total across the strategy’s four pillars of protection, prevention, prosecution and policy co-ordination.
  • A robust monitoring and reporting framework establishes performance indicators to track progress and understand impact.

A targeted implementation plan for the final phase of Zero Tolerance, the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (DSGBV) has been published.

The implementation plan contains 95 actions across the strategy’s four pillars of Protection, Prevention, Prosecution and Policy Co-ordination, with a strong focus on delivery and collective action to 2026.

The DSGBV Agency Cuan worked in collaboration with officials from the Department of Justice and in close consultation with other Government Departments, state agencies and external stakeholders to develop the plan for 2025-2026.

Priority areas include continuing national leadership and cross government alignment, expanding refuge accommodation, delivering a comprehensive national emergency domestic violence accommodation plan, and advancing legislative reform. That legislative reform includes removing the guardianship rights of a person who has been convicted of killing their intimate partner; developing a mechanism to ensure any person in an intimate relationship can be informed if their partner has a history of domestic violence; and advancing provisions to ensure counselling records are only released where the Court decides that they contain material relevant to legal proceedings.

The plan also includes actions to continue to deliver impactful awareness campaigns on sexual consent and pathways to safety, and a comprehensive set of training actions to upskill front-line professionals across the health and social care sector, DSGBV services, the judiciary, courts and other justice agencies.

The development of the plan was collaborative and evidence informed, involving research and a review of implementation to date, followed by in-depth consultations with Government departments and state agencies. It takes an intersectional approach, ensuring that actions and outcomes are responsive to the diverse and overlapping identities of victims and survivors of DSGBV, supported by the development and establishment of survivor-centred structures to ensure that victim/survivor voice is heard. The work to develop foundational structures, build networks and relationships lays the groundwork for beginning the transition to a Fourth National Strategy on DSGBV.

Also published today is the second 2024 Progress Report, covering the period July to December 2024, which highlights continued progress across government and the sector in implementing the Zero Tolerance strategy.

Notable achievements during the reporting period include:

  • Expanding emergency accommodation capacity including launch of a state-of-the-art refuge facility in Wexford and strengthening the pipeline for refuge and safe home expansion.
  • Reform of the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) Curriculum to empower students to be healthy and resilient young adults who have the skills and confidence to nurture healthy relationships.
  • Expansion of services for children and young people experiencing domestic or sexual violence, with €17m in funding distributed to 60 services supporting children and young people.
  • Enactment of the Family Courts Act 2024 providing for the establishment of family court divisions within the existing court structures including a Family High Court, a Family Circuit Court and a Family District Court.
  • Supporting the Game Changer campaign, a three-year initiative led by Ruhama, in partnership with the GAA and the Men’s Development Network, using sports-based advocacy to raise awareness of gender-based violence.
  • Convening of a National Consent Forum.
  • Engagement with the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to scope the development of a Domestic Violence survey to commence in 2025.

The 2025–2026 implementation plan and the Second Progress Report (2024) are available at: https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/Zero_Tolerance_Implementation_Plan_2025-2026.pdf.

Safe Surgery Practice Failures In Medical Records At Tipperary University Hospital.

According to an internal inspection, undertaken by HSE auditors, on emergency, elective and day procedures at Tipperary University Hospital (TUH); a listing used to ensure HSE safe surgery is being followed, was not located in healthcare records. The failure was discovered following a random sample, taken of 15 patients, latter who had undergone surgical procedures at TUH, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, just last year.

The HSE audit report revealed that it could only provide limited assurance regarding the adequacy and effective governance relating to risk management and the internal control system, at the hospital, when it came to HSE strict policy on safe surgery.

HSE auditors had carried out a retrospective random sample on healthcare records of 15 patients out of a total of 96. Same had undergone surgery or an endoscopy at TUH, over a seven-day period in July 2024. Same audit was undertaken to check that planned surgery was clearly documented and that consent was obtained and recorded for each surgical procedure.

While, TUH had amalgamated aspects of the required checklist into its care plans, latter recommended in the HSE’s National Policy and Procedure for Safe Surgery; the audit found that the HSE’s actual checklist was not found in any medical records reviewed, in relation to the auditors random sample of 15 procedures which had been carried out on site within the hospital.

The report stated that there was a risk that variances between the hospital’s care plans and the official checklist “may result in sub-optimal implementation” of the HSE’s policy on safe surgery “with potential adverse consequences for patients.

Among questions on the checklist which were not included in the HSE’s recommended care plan were:
(A) If the procedure had been confirmed with a parent or guardian in the case of children and if prophylactic antibiotics were required.
(B) Failure to check if a healthcare record number matched the number on the patient’s wristband or if protocols were in place if the patient suffered unexpected blood loss.
(C) TUH included some questions that were completed after an anaesthetic was administered, which should have been carried out beforehand under the rules as set out in the HSE checklist.
(D)TUH was unable to provide records about the number of medical staff who had completed a mandatory course on safe surgery.

The audit further concluded that recommended pre-surgery briefings among medical staff at TUH Clonmel, resembled “nursing huddles” as opposed to multidisciplinary briefings, of which not all members of the theatre team were found to be present at such meetings. The report also noted that non-attendance of key members could result in critical information not being properly transferred, thus resulting in potential harm to patients.

The HSE auditors issued a total of four recommendations, including that all components of the HSE’s checklist for safe surgery be incorporated into the relevant care plans at TUH, or, alternatively that the checklist be adopted as a standalone document by the hospital.

TUH management have now agreed to the implementation of all the recommendations conveyed by the HSE audit.