• Enforcement
• Monitoring
• Food Monitoring and Surveillance
• Microbiological Monitoring and Surveillance
• National Microbiological Monitoring and Surveillance Programme
• HSE Local Monitoring and Surveillance Programme
• Targeted Monitoring of the Irish Food Supply
• Chemical Monitoring and Surveillance
• Genetically Modified Food
• Irradiated Food
• Labelling
• Nutrition
• Human Disease Surveillance
• Zoonoses Surveillance

HSE Local Monitoring and Surveillance Programme

Under the official food control programme, food samples taken for microbiological analysis at HSE supervised premises are submitted for analyses to one of seven official food microbiology laboratories (OFMLs). Food samples are analysed for a wide range of foodborne bacteria. Remedial action for samples with an unsatisfactory outcome is taken by environmental health officers. These actions can range from follow-up investigations to taking of further samples, or an inspection of the premises to identify possible hygiene deficiencies.

Please see below for results of 2005, 2004 and 2003. More current reports are not available at present. 

• HSE Routine Microbiological Sampling and Analysis 2005  
• HSE Routine Microbiological Sampling and Analysis 2004  
• HSE Routine Microbiological Sampling and Analysis 2003  
  

Last reviewed: 13/7/2011