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THE FOOD SAFETY Authority (FSAI) has revealed its online calorie counter, designed for use by restaurants.
The authority is currently consulting the public on how best this calorie count can be published on menus, a proposal criticised by restaurant owners as potentially costing businesses thousands.
Menu-Cal is outlined as allowing restaurants to calculate this figure themselves “without any cost implications”, with chefs inputting a detailed list of ingredients
Dr Mary Flynn, Public Health Nutrition expert with the FSAI, said that Menu-Cal is a response to food business’s concerns to provide this information accurately.
“We have devised a calorie calculator that delivers this,” she explained, “while also offering chefs and cooks an extremely efficient way of securely storing all their recipes and ingredients in one location.”
Minister for Health James Reilly said it will have a “significant benefit to both individuals consumers and food businesses across the country”.
“Irish people want information to allow them to make healthy choices when it comes to the food they eat.”
The website allows you to outline how the meal is being cooked, and calculates the oil or butter being used:
You can then pick out individual ingredients and quantities:
The website then adds it all up:
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Shambles, and what happened to the daily update of the amount of vaccinations? Guess they don’t wanna show us how much of a mess the programme has been so far
@LFCMAD_94: There was never a daily update, it’s given on Thursdays. Also the rate of vaccinations per capita is one of the best in Europe. Hardly a shambles.
@Aaron Forde: 6th best in Europe, 11th best in the world. The moan for Ireland brigade cant help themselves
@Eamonn Duggan: its maddening. I never post on here usually but I had to this time.
@LFCMAD_94: 22 out of how many tens of thousands??
Someone really needs to to step up and manage the delivery and storage of these vials effing laughable
@Paul Madigan: Let Michael O Leary run it
@Paul Dolan: he’ll charge you seperately for the syringe, the vial, the needle, the first dose, the second dose and you’ll need to get a connecting bus to the clinic. This is not a job for the private sector…
@Paul Dolan: sure. The virus would cost everybody 3€ but the needle, paying for the vaccinator, and the injections would be an extra €120.
@David Clements: I have to say sounds great, I’d happily pay for a spare needle just incase.
@Paul Madigan: Humans make errors, including carers or health workers under immense strain. Get over it.
@David Clements: He’d still get it done though. And on time.
@Robert Clifford: having overestimated that time at the outset by about 150%
@Paul Madigan: good point there should be no reason why the nursing home itself should be storing the vacccine itself
@Hotirish: you would be hoping health care workers don’t keep making mistakes so maybe you get over yourself
Learn from it. People that haven’t made mistakes haven’t done a terrible lot
This was bound to happen. The staff are under so much stress and pressure. Please don’t be mean, be kind
And I suppose nobody will be held accountable for it either? Joke.
@Laura Walsh: I presume you’ve never made a mistake Laura? It must be amazing being so perfect.
@Laura Walsh: somebody should be held accountable as it is more of the same nonsense that we saw a few weeks ago
Its 5 doses per vial when they fkuc up and 6 or 7 doses the rest of the time. The spin would make you dizzy. Distribution should be by private firms where there are consequences for them if they fkuc up, not by HSE where there is no accountability
@John McCann: This isn’t the place for the private sector. Don’t care what you say about the HSE, I’d rather them run it than have the private sector get their grubby fingers on any of these vaccines. Accountability doesn’t just magically appear once you introduce a profit motive.
Did private nursing homes get held accountable for their actions throughout the pandemic?
@John McCann: how do you know the error didn’t occur with a nursing home run by a private firm?
@John McCann: Pfizer gaurentee 5 doses per vial. An experienced health worker can get six and with practice may get seven. No spin here. Plus these are not top end HSE managers just decent nurses, doctors etc doing their best. Maybe ease off a bit eh?
@John McCann: 100 of 143,000 doses
There is not a single private company that can even contemplate, envisage or imagine having 5million clients on a project.
@John McCann: @John McCann: 100 of 143,000 doses
There is not a single private company that can even contemplate, envisage or imagine having 5million clients on a project
@▪️: private sector are delivering the vaccines around the world and in bulk movements.
100 of 143,000 doses…
Can the vaccines not be delivered by someone who checks what the cold chain preservation arrangements are and gives the ok? This seems very basic?
@Marlnor: presumably it was a person who discovered the problem. Based on the records being kept of the storage of the vials. Hence, they system picked up the error.
@Michael Burke: I mean the deliverer with the freezer van who will only deliver them to an adequate freezer.
Jesus folks. One side would complain that these were wasted and who is to blame yadda yadda yadda and the other side would moan if these were given out to someone not on the correct list. Difficult job all round.
@Richard Connell: Actually it’s the same small but vocal crowd of moaning sh*t* stirrers who talk out of both sides of their mouths on any given issue…
@Richard Connell: agree, it’s a difficult one, but there has been a lot of time to plan this. Personally I’d rather see a decision to give them to someone, but as you said, similar levels of outpour and you might not be able to plan the 2nd dose to the same people.
Very surprised at this. Every dog on the street knows that you need -80c storage for this vaccine and that it has a short shelf life once thawed. The nursing home should have been able to flag that they do not have adequate storage. It’s a very specialised piece of equipment, typically not found in a nursing home and not likely in a GP surgery or clinic either.
Such a simple part of the equation, badly overlooked. What a mess, and I’d guess we’ll hear something similar again and possibly again…..
@Kevin McClean: if it happens again and again and again, how will you and your ilk possibly cope with level of arousal?
@David Clements: my ilk?, What an eejit. Not the sharpest tool in the box are we. P1ss off troll!!
@Kevin McClean: if fairness you went on a rant based on flawed hypotheses
@Michael Burke: nothing wrong with a rant, especially when you see a very avoidable situation. I honestly believe is was a good point well made. possibly flawed , but if you feel there is an other reason,,, by all means certainly counter or add to my argument. But this idea of “my ilk” I’m not having it. I’m a very concerned, and frustrated person, who can see both sides of the coin and chime in when I feel I have a point to offer or consider
@Kevin McClean: The ranting troll has been hurt, poor troll, perhaps a lie down under a bridge would help.
Someone needs to take accountability for this and resign.
22 lives could be saved from this.
I mean 120 lives.
5 per vile
@Darren Byrne: Slightly overdramatic don’t you think?
@Darren Byrne: 22? It’s 22 vials, 5 doses per vial. That’s 110 doses. The same vial would never be used for the same person, so that’s 110 people who could have received their first dose.
@Rowan Murphy: darren’s never made a mistake.
@Darren Byrne: Yes – vile…
@Eugene Norman: you are a mistake
@Darren Byrne: It’s ok Darren you just made a mistake, it happens!
If this vaccine is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel then surely it’s time to involve every relevant private company to manage the implementation. No offence to the public sector who are doing a brilliant job, in particular our front line health teams but the kitchen sink needs to be thrown at this. 24/7 until everyone is given hope.
It is so sad hearing of the large deaths again today and I think everyone is mentally tired.
Some might say supply is an issue, others might say supply should have been secured earlier in the process. Either way, what ever it takes, who ever it involves, how intense it may be, what ever it costs, let’s just get it done.
It’s easy to criticise for your sitting room. Armchair experts..
That’s disgraceful! Should never have happened. 110 people without a vaccination due to this error. Unforgivable!
@Rebecca Owens: 100 of 143000 doses. That rate of error is not only forgivable but commendable…
@Rebecca Owens: I would imagine they will be allocated another batch in the next few days so it is not exactly the end of the world. Nobody is going to miss out and they will catch up.
I think the government took out is slow and uneven but this is a minor mistake.
@Eugene Norman: 100% agree, but there has been so much time to prepare, and we seem to be struggling at the beginning of a slow vaccine roll out. You could turn a blind eye if we were vaccinating at a very rapid rate.
22 vials is 130 doses.
Heads should roll over this, utter disgrace
@Leo O’ Leary: calm down Madame Guillotine
Sadly the journal hasn’t reported the full story here more trickery and looking after your friends Again
Have a real life experience of inadequat medical standards in a care home.
Fabulous, dedicated staffs, but expertise not high.
Visiting/on call GPs, administering nurses, the entire operating on the basis that ill residents are shipped off to public hospitals as & when acute care is identified.
Which is how most Covid 19 outbreaks penetrate care homes.
Most of these care homes are too small to price in higher medical standards, so therein lies the basic issue when sick people need to be kept out of public hospitals as far as possible.
Difficult to identify an in house solution, but seems obvious that more intense medical surveillance is needed on an ongoing basis, on just ad hoc.
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