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Guess he figured no one would notice in Burford: Meat business, owner fined

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Burford is a wonderful little hamlet outside of my hometown of Brantford, Ontario. I’m sure it’s a lovely place now, but when I was a teenager it was a destination for and depravity and decadence.

burfordA lot of people had mullets.

 A Burford meat business and its owner have been fined $3,750 for violating provincial food safety law, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

On Jan. 27, 1107053 Ontario Inc., operating as Greenwood Meats, of 124 King St., and owner Thomas Greenwood pleaded guilty in provincial offences court in Brantford to one count each of processing meat products without a licence under the Food Safety and Quality Act, said a media release.

On June 18, 2015, a joint inspection was conducted at Greenwood Meats by regulatory compliance officers of the ministry and the Brant County Health Unit.

During the inspection, Greenwood admitted that about 330 pounds of ready-to-eat meat products were produced on site without a licence under the act, the ministry stated in a media release.

Greenwood had signed a document in 2008 stating that he would not produce this type of meat products at his premises, according to the ministry.

The meat products, valued at about $1,600, were voluntarily condemned so they would not be distributed or sold to the public.

Greenwood and his company were fined a total of $3,000 plus a $750 victim fine surcharge.

Fancy food ain’t safe food – UK’s award-winning Dorset Smokery edition

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Around 200kg of mouldy and contaminated meat, poultry and dairy products packaged for sale have been seized from a wholesaler in Hurn.

Dorset Smokery, in Hurn Court LanePublic Health officers from Christchurch and East Dorset Councils obtained a warrant to search The Dorset Smokery, in Hurn Court Lane, on Monday, February 24, following a tip off.

After investigating, officers found items, also including olives and pate, which they described as mouldy or past their use-by date which were packaged and labelled ready for purchase in the fridges and freezers.

Officers also saw a vacuum packing machine which was being used for both smoked and raw food, which could they said cause contamination and all of the food could have caused food poisoning if eaten.

Steve Duckett, Head of Housing and Health for Christchurch and East Dorset Councils, said that the food which had been through the machine was therefore classed as unfit for human consumption and was also seized.

He added that there were other vacuum packing machines on the premises but these were broken.

The seized food was kept in a freezer lorry until Todd Saddler, the owner of The Dorset Smokery, appeared before a judge at Bournemouth Magistrates Court on Monday, February 29.

The judge agreed that the food did not comply with the requirements of the Food Safety Act 1990 and ordered the Public Health officers to destroy all of it. Mr Sadler was also ordered to pay the councils’ costs of £750.

The Dorset Smokery had won awards for its artisan pate and wild boar and apple sausages and the Hurn Honker.

The company’s website is also no longer active. Their Facebook page, which describes the firm as a traditional smokery and charcuterie, has not been updated since December 2014.

Dangerously dirty Woody Grill fined £30,000 in UK

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The owner of a filthy restaurant who put the public at risk was fined £30,000 after an investigation by Hammersmith & Fulham Council.

woody-grillThe owners of Woody Grill restaurant and takeaway in 1 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, pleaded guilty in court to a total of eight offences.

H&F Council’s environmental health team stepped in after complaints from residents who fell ill after eating at the restaurant.

Officers found the restaurant in a filthy condition, including dirty food preparation surfaces, chopping boards and fridge door handles.

In addition, cooked food was not protected from raw food, animal droppings were found in the back store room with no pest control measures in place and health and safety paperwork was not kept.

The restaurant’s owner, Cengiz Erpolat, was also ordered to pay costs of £4,327.50 and a £120 victim surcharge at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 23 February.

Erpolat owns six other Woody Grill restaurants across the capital and has previous convictions for similar offences in neighbouring Ealing.

“When customers eat out the very least they can expect is food that doesn’t make them ill,” said Cllr Wesley Harcourt, H&F Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport and Residents’ Services. “And these failings are also unfair on the vast majority of businesses who invest properly in proper hygiene standards to keep residents safe.

7 sickened, 1 death in 2014 Listeria outbreak; cheese plant fined $100k

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A federal judge has ordered a Delaware cheese company that was the source of a listeria outbreak in 2014 to pay a $100,000 fine.

roos-foods-logo-300x187The judge issued the sentence Thursday after Roos Foods Inc. pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor criminal charge. The company also agreed to a permanent injunction prohibiting it from distributing any food products unless it proves compliance with federal food safety laws.

Court records show that federal investigators found significant sanitation problems at Roos Foods after a listeria outbreak killed one person in California and sickened seven others in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.

The Kenton-based company ceased operations in 2014 after the Food and Drug Administration suspended its food facility registration. It has not reopened.

100 hospitalized after food poisoning outbreak at UK Chinese restaurant where rotting meat left in sink

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One hundred diners were hospitalized with food poisoning at a filthy Chinese restaurant in July 2014.

ral.china.uk.salmScores of sick customers who had eaten at the Real China had to be rushed to A&E following an outbreak of Salmonella.

Southampton Magistrates’ Court heard shocked inspectors found hunks of raw meat left in a sink and dirty tea towels dumped on the kitchen floor of the restaurant in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

Now those involved with the restaurant at the time have been hit with £70,000 in fines and costs, after what was reportedly the biggest food poisoning outbreak the borough council has ever seen.

Akkora Management, who run the restaurant, and director Zudong Liu admitted 15 offences of failing to comply with EU laws relating to food safety and hygiene.

The company was given a fine of £30,000, Liu a further £21,500 and £22,000 in costs was also ordered, the Daily Echo reports.

The Real China is now under new management.

Cockroach infested restaurant incurs hefty fines in Canberra

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The former owner of a northside Thai restaurant who let cockroaches infest his kitchen and appliances has been ordered to pay fines worth thousands of dollars. 

rest.roach.canberraBen Thankum, the proprietor of Lao Thai Kitchen in Holt before it closed, allowed cockroaches to breed and die inside food tubs, on floors, walls and benches.

He was also charged with a failure to ensure clean surfaces, letting contaminated material spread in the kitchen and poor food storage procedures.

The restaurant was inspected by food safety officers in February 2014 who became concerned food sold at the shop would be unsafe for consumption.

Thankum appeared before the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday and was charged $2000 for each violation and ordered to pay court costs.

Court documents reveal the kitchen had fallen into disrepair with dead cockroaches left in dishwashing areas.

The documents also revealed food was stored in washing-up areas and sauces left on benches for eight hours at a time.

Ice buildup posed dangers in chest freezers with uncovered foods with exhaust fans clogged with grease.

Special magistrate Maria Doogan said the restaurant had since been sold and Thankum had begun working in a different occupation.

Russian state media say French supermarket, Burger King fined over food violations

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Russian state news agencies say government officials have issued a total of $600,000 in fines for alleged food safety violations at Burger King and French supermarket chain Auchan.

ussrAnna Popova, head of Russian consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor, was quoted by media outlets including RIA Novosti as saying Auchan’s fines totaled over 25 million rubles ($372,000) and that “several hundred” employees were suspended from work.

Specific reasons for the fines were not immediately clear and Auchan declined to comment.

Auchan is also the target of allegations from Russia’s agricultural agency, which claims some Auchan meat products tested positive for bacteria such as E. coli and Listeria. The allegations have reportedly led Auchan to close down some facilities for cleaning.

The inspections come at a time of tension between France and Russia over the extension of European Union sanctions and France’s decision to cancel a deal to provide warships to Russia.


 

Australian student pizza joint shut down, fined $20,000

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A council inspection found Clayton’s Cafe Student Curries and Pizza restaurant failed to provide safe and clean food premises, leaving the restaurant with a $24,500 bill.

Cafe-Student-Curries-Pizza-Restaurant-Clayton-MelbourneThe breaches included inadequate pest control, poor food storage and hand washing facilities.

The council’s environmental health officer visited the premises on eight occasions, and found a litany of disgusting food handling practices, including bags of wheat and rice stored on the floor of a toilet area.

The restaurant was covered in grime and its hot water unit was not operating, a cooking pot was on the floor of the toilet area, with remnants of rice on it, and a dough mixing bowl was on the floor next to a mop bucket.

The inspector found drink serving trays, which were covered in grime and food residue, were being used to cover trays of dough and a cockroach was crawling behind a slicer on the microwave bench.

On the first visit in March, the inspector found 51 including no hand soap and foods like cheese and yoghurt kept in a broken fridge.

The council later issued a notice to the company for 68 non-compliances to the Food Act.

The cafe reopened once council officers were happy with the level of cleanliness and safety required under the Food Safety Act.

The restaurant serves Indo-Pakisanti food and a range of pizzas.

Mr Phungs struck with £4,000 court bill for Chinese takeaway

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The boss of a Chinese takeaway in Leeds, UK, has been left with a court bill of more than £4,000 after inspectors found a string of filthy conditions and food safety breaches.

mr.phung'sCau Tuyet Phung, operator of Mr Phungs at 4 Selby Avenue in the Halton area, was called to appear before Leeds magistrates and was found guilty of contravening a number of food safety rules.

He was fined £1,500 and must also pay £2,745.05 in costs and a £50 victim surcharge.

During a routine inspection, environmental health officers found failure to protect food from possible contamination, failure to keep the premises clean, failure to keep items of equipment clean and failure to put in place and implement a food safety management system.

$19,000 fine: Is this Australia’s filthiest restaurant?

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A popular dumpling restaurant in Melbourne’s east has been exposed as a filthy cesspit, and its owner fined $19,000 after live and dead cockroaches, drain flies, rodent feces and filthy buildups of food waste, grease, oil and grime were found in the kitchen.

Raramen eatery in Glen WaverleyA Monash Council inspector made the discovery at the Raramen eatery in Glen Waverley, along with used drink bottles used to store sauces, meat sitting on a bench “for a couple of hours” and rice stored on the floor, plus wires and boxes that had been nibbled by rodents.

Astonishingly, the restaurant — which is still open for business — continued to be riddled with to insects and rodent poo on up to eight further council visits between March and July this year.

On July 10, Dumpling Hut Pty Ltd, the company which owns Raramen, and company director Siu Hin Yip pleaded guilty to 17 charges under the Food Act 1984 and the Food Standards Code. The charges related to inadequate pest control, unsuitable food handling, poor food storage and inadequate skills, among other issues.