Food labelling regulations and meeting new market challenges for Irish Food Producers On 24th May 2017 we held a very successful Food Labelling workshop in association with University College Cork, Taste4Success and Formium Consulting Ltd. The workshop was entitled ‘Food labelling regulations and meeting new market challenges for Irish Food Producers’ and was a follow on from […]

Meat Origin labelling of Poultry, Pork, Sheep and Goats Under the general labelling rules (FIC Regulation 1169/2011) it is up to the Food Business Operator to indicate the country of origin whenever its absence may mislead the consumer. We know that the EU has implemented mandatory origin labelling for certain products such as beef & […]

Themis Food Advisory winner of Best Startup award 2015 Fermoy-based company Themis Food Advisory won the Best Start-up category award at the 2015 Blacknight SME (Small & Medium sized Enterprise) Awards on 25 April at the Radisson Hotel in Cork. This inaugural event recognized the hard work and ingenuity of Irish SMEs from across the country […]

‘Facts on FIC’ workshop, October 14th in the Kingsley Hotel, Cork, Ireland On Tues 14th October I had the privilege of organising a food labelling workshop entitled ‘Facts on FIC’ in association with the famous Food Industry Training Unit at University College Cork (UCC). We were bowled over by the interest in the topic with […]

Coeliac Convention 2014 I had the pleasure of being invited to the Coeliac Convention 2014 in the Silver Springs Conference Centre, Cork on October 4th 2014. The Coeliac event in association with SuperValu attracted over 320 attendees. There was an atmosphere of anticipation where family and friends reconnected with a common drive for information and […]

Awards to Craft Butchers at Food Hospitality Ireland 2014 I was delighted to be invited by Craft Butchers to speak on the new FIC labeling at the Food Hospitality Ireland 2014 event in Citywest Event Centre on Thursday 18th September. Doors opened at 10am and there was a great buzz as I walked around the […]

What is FIC? Dr. Karen Roche, Food Regulatory Advisor with Themis Food Advisory.   Welcome to my blog. I don’t know about you, but I get a bit addled by the colourful panels, the mouth-watering photos and lines and lines of what could be computer code for all I can see on food packaging these […]

Cork & Kerry Food Forum 2014   On the 30th June 2014 I, along with 3,999 other people, attended The Cork & Kerry Food Forum. More than 60 artisan producers from across Cork and Kerry gathered at the City Hall in Cork to showcase their products and what a display it was! The early morning […]

Taking a butchers at EU Regulation FIC 1169/2011 ACBI BBQ event, 28th May 2014   Ever spent a convivial evening in the company of a group of butchers? Well, I have and it was not half as scary as you might expect. I was addressing the Associated Craft Butchers of Ireland (ACBI) at their annual […]