Safety pins, stones, and beetle found in food

A LIVE beetle in a bag of Caesar salad, a moth in a Madeira cake, insects and rodents scurrying around food premises.

No it’s not a scene from Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, but actual incidents reported to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) last year.

According to the FSAI, one in four of all calls related to consumers reporting issues concerning food and food establishments. The 2,126 complaints represented an increase of over 7% on 2009 and ranged from reports of unfit food, low hygiene standards, inaccurate labelling information and suspected food poisoning.