safefood Podcast

A panel at our recent All-island Obesity Action Forum (Nov 2024) discuss how the environments where we live our lives influence our risk of obesity. The panel includes:  Charlene Brooks, CEO of Belfast Healthy Cities  Sharon Daly, Iarnrod Éireann Irish Rail  Dr Gesche Kindermann, University of Galway  with Safefood's Director of Nutrition, Dr Aileen McGloin

Dr Colman Noctor, child psychotherapist, and Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food Director of Nutrition, talk about how a small daily change can start families on the way to a healthier life. Hosted by safe food in partnership with Libraries Ireland, this talk invited parents to ask our experts advice on setting small, realistic goals and overcoming pushback from the rest of the family. 

 This webinar is brought to you by the START campaign.  A public health awareness campaign from safe food , the HSE and healthy Ireland and the public health agency and department of health in Northern Ireland.  In this webinar we're focusing on the topic of how best to moderate our children's treat food consumption. It is hosted by Jen Hogan, joined by safe food 's chief specialist...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food ’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, food poverty, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Dr Charmain McGowan, Scientific Officer at safe food , and dietician Sarah Keogh who runs Eatwell, a food and nutrition consultancy for the food indust...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food ’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, food poverty, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Maura Murphy from Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity and Colin Dunlevy, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. We look at the barriers to phy...

In this episode of our Nutrition podcast we look at food poverty and the cost of a minimum food basket on the island of Ireland. We talk to Dr Bernadette Mac Mahon, Director of Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, and Robert Thornton who works with her as Senior Research and Policy Officer. They are the researchers behind safe food ’s reports on the cost of a healthy food basket on the islan...

This is the safe food Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by James McIntosh, chief toxicologist with safe food , which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the island of Ireland. In this episode, we look at the topic of food intolerances, how they differ from food allergies as well as how they affect many people in Ireland today.  We are joined by dietician and nutritioni...

This is the safe food Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by James McIntosh, chief toxicologist with safe food , which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the island of Ireland. In this episode, we look at the topic of food fraud, what it means for food businesses, particularly the small and medium sized food manufacturers, and what they can do to protect themselves from...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food ’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Dr Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology and Childhood, at The Open University (UK) and Mr. Chris Macey, Head of Advocacy at...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food ’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Professor Donal O'Shea, consultant endocrinologist based in St. Vincent’s University Hospital and St. Columcille’s Hospital and  Professor Corinn...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Ursula O’Dwyer, Health Promotion policy advisor at the Department of Health and Dr Marian O’Reilly, Chief Specialist in Nutrition at safe food, about t...

This is the safe food Food Safety podcast series, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the Island of Ireland. In this episode, we chat to quality and hygiene systems consultant Marie-Therese Sweeney about remote food safety auditing and discuss its implications for food businesses. 

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode we talk to Dr Grace O’Malley, who leads the obesity research and care group in the University of Medicine and Health Sciences; patient advocate Susie Birney from E...

This is a safe food Food Safety podcast where we look at different elements of the food chain on the Island of Ireland. Presented by James McIntosh, a specialist in toxicology with safe food , this podcast looks at milk allergies and milk intolerance. He talks to Dr Hazel Gowland, member of the safe food Knowledge Network expert advisory group and leading advocate for people with food allergies. I...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food ’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode we talk to Kitty Holland, social affairs correspondent for The Irish Times, and Dr Megan Blake, senior lecturer at University of Sheffield, about food poverty. In...

This is the safe food Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by Dr Linda Gordon, safe food ’s chief specialist in food science, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the Island of Ireland. In this episode, we chat to Jim Power, Chief Economist for Aviva Ireland, about the potential impact of Covid-19 on the food industry in Ireland. This will be of particular interest t...

This is a special edition of the Food Safety for SMEs podcast series taken from a webinar recorded with Pat O’Mahony, Chief Specialist Food Science & Technology at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, and James McIntosh, Chief Toxicologist at safefood. They discuss Food Allergen Labelling for non-prepacked food - food ‘sold loose’ including food sold at takeaways, by distance selling, contrac...

This is a special edition of the Nutrition podcast series where we bring you a recording of a symposium on hosted by safe food at the 2019Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference in Dublin.  The symposium asked “What Advice Does the Public Believe? – and the challenges for researchers, policy makers and practitioners”.  The symposium is introduced by Martin Higgins, Chairman of the Fo...

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safe food at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference. Here Dr Gabriel Scally , epidemiologist, honorary Professor at University of Bristol and author of the Cervical Screening Report talks about the need for open access to research papers and the need for professionals to be willing to share their research and lea...

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safe food at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference. Here RTÉ journalist Philip Boucher Hayes talks about the proliferation of ‘Nutribabble’ in the media and how real experts need to go on air to counteract the misinformation that is fed into the media circuit.  

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safe food at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference. Here Dr Robert O’Connor from The Irish Cancer Society talks about diet shaming for cancer patients and the danger of misinformation on nutrition that is spun to people with cancer. 

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safe food at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference.  Here cancer advocate Eileen O’Sullivan talks about the ‘Nutrition Maelstrom’ for cancer patients and the challenges of navigating through often conflicting advice while being treated for cancer. 

This is the safe food Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by Dr Linda Gordon, safe food ’s chief specialist in food science, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the Island of Ireland. In this episode, we chat to Eddie O’Neill from Teagasc, expert in artisan and specialty foods, about the importance and purpose of food packaging.

This is the safe food Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by Dr Linda Gordon, safe food ’s chief specialist in food science, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the Island of Ireland. In this episode we chat to James McIntosh, safefood's specialist in chemistry & toxicology and an expert in food allergens, about allergen control for food businesses from pr...

This is the safe food Nutrition podcast series presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safe food ’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which shares research and knowledge on key issues like obesity, food poverty, social prescribing and community food initiatives on the Island of Ireland. In this episode, we talk to Joana da Silva, expert in Human Health and Nutrition at safefood and UK based Food P...