HSE are to carrying out a programme of targeted inspections in the food manufacturing sector between 1 October and 31 December of this year. The inspections are focussing on:

• the control of musculoskeletal risks in all food manufacturing sectors,
• the control of flour dust exposure – an asthmagen – in bakeries and grain mills,
• and the control of exposure to Bovine Tuberculosis – that can be transmitted to humans -in abattoirs that slaughter cattle.