Company at centre of bottled water recall ‘now insolvent’
Celtic Pure claims August sales slump and €3 million in unforeseen once-off costs incurred
Resurgence in salt intake linked to heart disease, stroke and cancer
Worst offenders include processed meats, bread products, ready-made soups
‘Clean meat’ coming to a supermarket shelf near you, but when?
‘Lab meat’ will sit ‘somewhere between low-cost hamburgers and high-end cuts’
Nine dead mice discovered in ‘luxury dessert’ business
Food Safety Authority orders 11 closures during May, the highest of the year so far
Prof Donal O’Shea: ‘The shocking fact is that most ill-health now comes from our lifestyle’
Health Hero: ‘I try to keep in mind the mantra of everything in moderation – including moderation’
Fluoride: safe to drink
Expert medical and scientific conclusions do not seem to matter when emotions are involved
Decision Time: What is the ideal postgraduate course for you?
Ensuring that your course of choice has credibility in the labour market a big challenge
FG TD claims Irish teenagers ‘second most sober in EU’
WHO lists alcohol as most serious carcinogen - ’similar to tobacco, arsenic, asbestos’
Consumers warned they cannot rely on food intolerance test kits
Authority says there is no single test to diagnose food intolerance
Legal advice sought over fire safety in overcrowded properties
Dublin’s chief fire officer calls legislation covering overcrowding ‘poor’ and ‘difficult’
Diseased lamb carcasses condemned at meat plants
Department of Agriculture excludes 400 lambs from food chain
Galaxy and Maltesers products recalled over salmonella risk
Mars says there have not been any complaints of illness yet
Irish men eating double their salt allowance, FSAI finds
Consumption high despite salt reductions in processed food, says Food Safety Authority
Feargal Quinn: Do you know what is in your barbecue burger?
Retailers and food producers are still under no obligation to inform consumers as to where the food we eat actually comes from
Pub allows dogs back onto premises despite HSE ban
MVP says they have received no formal written information about the ban
Top 10: the stories that grabbed your attention in 2015
Secret files in Swiss banks, escaping from Google’s reach, a website that tells your age, who owes the most and, of course, who is still the richest. These are the articles on ‘The Irish Times’ website that were the most read in the past year
Dissident inmates to sue State over prison conditions
Prisoners in Portlaoise say ‘crumbling’ jail a health risk and breach of their human rights
Varadkar to press ahead with calorie counts on food menus
Survey shows 7 per cent of food businesses are telling customers about calorie content
Two cases of listeria found in milk products since 2014
European Commission report praises controls and says no risks identified for consumers
The research is sound, but can we eat these meat foods safely or not?
Panel: It was frightening to hear that the agency had decided to place processed meats in the same “Group 1: carcinogenic to humans” category among other known carcinogens such as tobacco and asbestos
Food Safety Authority to examine WHO report ‘in detail’
Revised healthy eating guidelines due after link between cancer and red/processed meat found
Drop in array of folic acid-added foods linked to birth defect increase
Folic acid taken before and during pregnancy prevents most forms of neural tube defects such as spina bifida
Food watchdog issues bag-chicken warning over poisoning risk
Safety authority voices concern at sharp rise in illness caused by Campylobacter bug
On the Menu: Too much, too little: problems to iron out
Getting the right amount of iron is easier said than done, but check out your diet before reaching for supplements
Sweet talk can’t sugar-coat the deadly link to heart disease
People who consume 17-21 per cent of their calories as added sugar have a 38 per cent greater risk of death from cardiovascular disease
FSAI launches online calorie calculator
Tool designed to help food businesses tally calorie content of menu items
Don’t blame parents for childhood obesity
State must act to tax products with high sugar content and promote healthy, nutritious food
Eleven food orders served in October
Orders bring to 121 the number of enforcement orders served so far this year compared with 109 served during the whole of 2012
Fast food accounts for ‘minority of calories’ but gets all the focus
Hunger the ‘least important’ factor in determining what we eat
Closure orders over food breaches served on businesses
Food Safety Authority served 17 enforcement orders in August
Agency held back on berry health alert
Ten people infected with hepatitis A virus, five cases emerged on Wednesday
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