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INSECTS were found crawling around in a box of sweets bought at a cinema in Tallaght in Dublin, a court has heard.
Irish Multiplex Cinema (IMC) Tallaght Ltd was convicted and fined €700 after pleading guilty at Dublin District Court to selling contaminated food that was unsafe for human consumption.
The prosecution was brought by the Health Service Executive (HSE) under an EU law regulating food safety.
It came after a complaint about the cinema, which is in the Square Shopping Centre in Tallaght, was made to environmental health officer Fiona Healy.
Outlining the facts of the case, solicitor Adrian Lennon, for the HSE, told Judge John Brennan that the case related to IMC Tallaght which could be described as a low risk food retailer selling confectionery, soft drinks and popcorn.
On 8 December 2016, customers bought sweets at the cinema which were put into a cardboard container which they later brought home.
“When they were getting to the bottom, they discovered a lot of insects crawling among the sweets in the container,” Mr Lennon said.
This rendered the product unsuitable for human consumption by reason of contamination.
IMC Tallaght’s solicitor told the court that the sweets were a small quantity which had come from a larger mass provided by a third-party supplier. That product line has now been discontinued, the court heard.
The food hygiene offence could result in class-B fine of up to €3,000, the court was told.
Judge Brennan said it was clearly a serious matter as the defendant is a large business operation with thousands of consumers going there on a regular basis. That, he said, has to be taken into account an aggravating factor.
He also said it must have been particularly discommoding for the cinema-goers to find the insects at the bottom of their sweets.
However, he noted the cinema had no prior criminal convictions, the quantity was very small and there was a third-party supplier. They had discontinued the product line and had taken appropriate action, he said.
He imposed a €700 fine and ordered that it must be paid within three months.
Judge Brennan ruled that due to the guilty plea being entered on the first day the case was before the court he was not going to order the cinema firm to pay prosecution costs.
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I like sums but would ye not put a gap between the answers, kgb)… that’s the end of answer a attached to answer b… just saying
@Pat Corrigan: that irritated me too! esp when you can use letters in maths!
I could answer them all correctly if I wanted to but I don’t want to ruin it for others. I’ll read the answers tomorrow just to make sure ye have em all right.
d, a, c, b, c, b, c, c, d.
And then to Q 10.
Any proper mathematician will use brackets when framing a question. This question, and ones like it, are purposefully made to annoy people. However that said in this case use BODMAS and the answer is 1.
9 – 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1 = 9 – (3 ÷ 1/3) + 1 = 9 – (3*3) + 1 = 9 – 9 + 1 = 1
@Alan Rossiter: But yet…..
….the key bit is the 3 ÷ 1/3.
÷ and / both mean ‘divide by’ and thus carry equal weight in BODMAS.
Therefore 3÷1/3 is the same as 3÷1÷3. As they have equal value in terms of BODMAS then start from the left. The 3 on the left divided by 1 equals 3. That 3 divided by 3 equals 1. Therefore the equation now turns into 9-1+1 = 9.
And this sort of potential inexactness is exactly why no mathematician would ever frame that question that way in the first place!
I’m sorry I started. I was nearly asleep!
@Alan Rossiter: Q1 is c, rather than d.
And as for Q10, your first answer is right, as is the reason why these things always go around Facebook and the like with people fighting over the answer.
But 3 ÷ One Third (using words for clarity) isn’t the same as 3 ÷ 1 ÷ 3, as division isn’t associative (i.e., the order you do the operations matters). In fact, because division isn’t associative, 3 ÷ 1 ÷ 3 isn’t a well defined mathematical statement, as you get two different answers depending on the order of operations chosen.
@John Nolan: C it is. Damn.
@John Nolan: It’s true that 3 ÷ 1 ÷ 3 is not the same as 3 ÷ 1/3. However the question states the latter, which evaluates to 9. I don’t agree that there is any choice of orders of operation in this case. It’s equivalent to 3 ÷ 0.33333…
@Paraic: Yeah, I read it to myself as 3 divided by a third, which is 9 all day long. The way it’s written is not helpful. I don’t think I’ve used the divided by symbol (can’t even find it on my phone lol) since primary school.
My brain tried but I am sure failed
You lost me at “have”
Q4 3rd of December is also a square number as well as 11/11 and 12/12
@Michael O’Carroll: I missed out on those, ran through it too quickly!
Is 1+1 still 2
C a c b c c is there a mistake in number 7? (Should D be 28?) C B …. and number 10 is ambiguous and a ridiculous assertion in there being one correct answer as you can use varied functions to achieve varied answers
@Declan Edward: 7 is fine. Set up your equation as follows : let x be the age now
x = 4(x-4) – 2(x+4)
x = 4x-16 – 2x -8
x = 2x – 24
24 = x
Check : 4 * 20 – 2 * 28 = 80-56=24.
Meh
Q.4 3rd December is also square as well as 11/11 and 12/12
BABBCBADA19
Jeez…it wouldn’t let me answer any of them…WTF!! Really!! Why do I waste my time?
c a c c c a c c d 1
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