The Food Safety Authority ordered ten companies to shut their doors last month.
That was including a food business operating from a barber shop with no facilities for maintaining hygiene and protecting the food.
Other issues identified include a live cockroach infestation in a kitchen, a dead rat in an open drain in a food store, frozen fish stored in a broken freezer.
It also discovered rat poo in a tub of hot chocolate powder.
The businesses are in Counties Dublin, Louth, Laois, and Meath.
Eleven Enforcement Orders served on food businesses in March.
See more info in the press release: https://t.co/MpJXYPyWR6. pic.twitter.com/oUCQ00p4o3— FoodSafetyAuthority (@FSAIinfo) April 17, 2023
