Dunnes Stores is recalling a turkey product as it “may be inadequately cooked due to the incorrect weight declaration on the package”.

Consumers are advised not to eat the implicated batch of the Irish Turkey Breast Crown with Prime Wings.

Turkey ‘may not be adequately cooked’

Point-of-sale recall notices will be displayed in stores supplied with the implicated batch. The pack size of the implicated batch is 1.5kg; with approval number IE 807 EC; and use-by date of April 5, 2021.

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If the cooking instructions are followed based on the weight declared on the label, the product may not be adequately cooked and therefore, would be unsafe for customers to eat, a notice from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) states.

New rules on transparency and sustainability

Meanwhile, a new regulation on transparency and sustainability of EU risk assessment in the food chain was passed by the European Parliament and Council of the EU, the FSAI notes.

It aims at “increasing the transparency of EU risk assessment in the food chain, on strengthening the reliability, objectivity and independence of the studies used by the European Food Safety Authority [EFSA] and revisiting the governance of EFSA in order to ensure its long-term sustainability.”

The regulation will “reinforce EFSA’s ability to carry out its risk assessments in accordance with the highest transparency standards”, according to the FSAI.

It will also strengthen the reliability and transparency of the scientific studies submitted to EFSA. Among other things, the new regulation:

  • Allows citizens access to scientific studies and information submitted to EFSA by industry early in the process of risk assessment;
  • Embeds public consultations in the process for assessing applications for approval of regulated products;
  • Ensures that EFSA is notified of all commissioned studies in a particular area to guarantee that companies applying for authorisations submit all relevant information;
  • Gives the European Commission the option of asking EFSA to procure additional studies.