A toilet “overflowing with human waste” and a “significant” cockroach infestation were among the reasons food businesses were served with closure orders last month, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said.Officers from the authority served 11 closure orders and two prohibition orders on food businesses in July for breaches of food safety legislation.The Village Shop and Takeaway in Mountbolus, Co Offaly, was served with a closure order on July 23rd. An inspector found a manhole in the staff toilet “overflowing with human waste”, according to a report published by the FSAI on Tuesday.“This human waste was overflowing into a room storing food contact equipment adjacent to the food preparation area,” the report said.The conditions posed “a grave and immediate risk to public health” as they provided “a direct opportunity” for food to be contaminated with bacteria, the inspector wrote.Diwali, a popular Indian and Nepalese restaurant on South Great Georges Street in Dublin 2, was served with a closure order on July 27th.The inspector found “evidence of a significant cockroach infestation throughout the kitchen food preparation areas”. The report said cockroaches were “present at all stages of their life cycle” and were “actively breeding” on the premises.Multiple dead cockroaches were also found throughout the kitchen food preparation areas. The closure order was lifted on August 7th after sanitation measures were put in place. At Babylon Restaurant in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, a dead rodent was found “behind equipment in close proximity to food products” and rodent droppings were found “under a disused dishwasher”. A closure order was issued to this business on July 17th and lifted on July 31st.[ FSAI recalls more than 40 items from Dunnes Stores and SuperValuOpens in new window ]Several other premises were issued with closure orders including a mobile unit trading as Canteen Street Food in Damastown Park, Dublin 15; India Dining restaurant in Prospect House, Church Street, Wicklow; and Roots Health Food, a stall trading at Salthill and Monkstown Dart station in Co Dublin. All of the closure orders have since been lifted. Greg Dempsey, chief executive of the FSAI, said the issues identified in the enforcement orders “are deeply concerning and demonstrate serious failures in basic food-safety controls”. “We continue to see cases where essential requirements, including effective cleaning, pest control, safe food handling practices, staff training and food-safety management systems are not being properly implemented,” he said.“These are not optional measures; they are legal requirements that every food business must have in place to protect consumers.”