Guidelines on food safety management

'GUIDELINES for Food Safety Management on Farms' is now available free of charge through the Teagasc Advisory Service or directly from Teagasc, National Food Centre, Ashtown, Dublin 15.

Authors Blaithin Maunsell and Declan Bolton have compiled the scientific information required by farmers to develop food safety practices on their farms. They point out that farmers have a key role to play in maintaining the positive image of Irish produce, and an important responsibility to protect public health.

Although Irish farmers are renowned for the natural, wholesome, safe food they produce, food-borne illness, in the guise of a major food poisoning outbreak, would negate all the hard work invested in achieving this status, and would compromise consumer confidence in Irish food.