Date: 2006. The food industry on the island of Ireland carries out extensive testing of their food products but results of these analyses are not normally released for public evaluation.

Date: The collection of data for the purpose of managing food safety includes both monitoring and surveillance. Monitoring is a system of collecting and disseminating data.

Date: January, 2005. Practical tools and approaches for GPs on the topic of infectious food borne illness with concise information about diagnosis, treatment and disease notification.

Date: 2005. The research, conducted by a team led by Dr. Mary McCarthy, UCC, and funded by safefood, provides evidence that while many consumers know the 'good' practices in food hygiene, every day practice varies considerably. 

Date: 2005. This research provides fresh insight into the dichotomy between young people's knowledge of food safety and nutrition, and their behaviour.

Date: 2005. Directory of Food Safety Laboratory Services.

Date: 2005. The study found that, in general food handling practices in the restaurants were good.

Date: 2005. This study examined consumer food safety knowledge on the island of Ireland. Domestic refrigerators were tested for the presence of a range of pathogenic bacteria.

Date: 2005. Ireland experiences marked social inequalities in health, seen in the variation in health outcomes, especially mortality, across the different social groupings.

Date: 2005. Food safety research is an important function within safefood's legislative remit, and is an area that the organisation has been active in since its inception.