Food safety group serves up award to Limerick-based school meals company

A LIMERICK firm which provides school meals has landed a prestigious food safety accreditation.

Carambola Kidz, located at Annacotty Business Park, was one of 19 food facilities and businesses in Ireland given a Food Safety Assurance Accreditation which highlights a commitment to excellence in food safety culture.

Headed by Colm O’Brien, CarambolaKidz was founded in 2003.

Its objective is to provide hand-made school meals to children, with their own special dietary requirements in mind.

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The excellence in food safety culture scheme is run by the Food Safety Professionals Association, an organisation working to maintain and improve standards of food safety advice, training and education opportunities in the Irish food industry.

Its chair Lorraine Oman said: “Ireland is renowned globally for top-quality food products, and ensuring that food safety and hygiene standards are of the highest calibre across all sectors is at the very heart of what our organisation does.

“Our Food Safety Assurance Accreditation scheme, which is voluntary for businesses, is an extremely important initiative as it demonstrates that a business is working consistently to adhere to the highest possible statutory and regulatory standards.”