UK takeaway fined for almost £12,000 food hygiene offences

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Douglas Powell

Food business operator Mr Yakup Kuyumcu of Mr Chips takeaway on Doncaster Road in Scunthorpe will have to pay a total of £11,965 in fines and costs for failing to maintain the necessary food hygiene standards at his premises.

North Lincolnshire Magistrates Court ordered Mr Kuyumcu imposed the fine because he:

Failed to ensure that the food premises were kept clean and in good repair and condition

Failed to ensure that adequate hand washing facilities were provided

Failed to maintain a permanent food management system.

North Lincolnshire Council Food Safety Team uncovered the offences following routine visits to the premises in November 2013 and February 2014.

The standards at the premises have since improved.

£7,500 fine for topping chicken kebab special with drill bit: UK

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Douglas Powell

A takeaway owner has been charged more than £7,500 for topping a chicken kebab special with a three-inch drill bit.

The DIY meal was dished up in July 2013 after a customer placed an order on website JustEat with Pizza Top/Top Kebab, a takeaway in High Street, Hornchurch, owned by Nehmatullah Jamalzadah.

But he bit off more than he could chew when he came across the metal tool while eating it. Luckily, he managed to avoid swallowing it or damaging his teeth, and complained to the online takeaway company.

JustEat attempted to contact Pizza Top but after failed attempts the customer was told to call back later. It was then that he contacted Havering environmental health officers.

The council visited the premises and found repair works had taken place and the premises were in a mess with electrical equipment, screwdrivers, decorating materials and other equipment that had not been cleared away.

No handwashing for staff: UK food company ordered to pay nearly £30,000

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Douglas Powell

A Bradford food company has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 for its persistent failure to comply with “integral” hygiene regulations, such as providing handwashing facilities for staff.

Ahmer Raja Foods Ltd, which trades as Rajas Pizza Bar on Leeds Road, was fined the bulk of the money, £20,000, for refusing to comply with a number of improvement notices issued by Bradford Council’s environmental health team.

Noone from the company attended the hearing at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court yesterday, but 21 breaches of food hygiene regulations were proven in their absence, and the firm was told to pay a total of £29,895 within 28 days.

Harjit Ryatt, prosecuting on behalf of Bradford Council, told the court that on five visits to the premises between January 24 and April 9 this year, officers found a lack of wash basins for staff, food handlers not wearing the correct protective clothing, and food kept in dirty or broken containers.

Fancy food ain’t safe food: UK wedding venue costs £14,000 to hire, suck at food safety

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Douglas Powell

These shocking pictures reveal the filthy conditions at an ‘exclusive’ wedding venue which has been ordered to pay more than £60,000 for breaching food hygiene and safety laws.

Davenport Green Hall in Altrincham, Manchester, charges £14,500 for a couple’s big day and has even been featured on Celebrity Four Weddings for glamour model Michelle Marsh’s reception.

But bosses have been fined £39,000 plus £21,500 in costs after investigators found the kitchen in a ‘shocking’ state and said routine cleaning had been ‘inadequate’.

Prohibition notices were also served for serious health and safety breaches concerning the gas, electricity and the slippery kitchen floor.

A wedding guest tipped-off environmental health officers after a reception at the venue.

And when officers arrived unannounced in August last year, they found the marquee kitchen and tented areas at the hall were in a very poor structural condition.

They also noted that staff were not trained properly, there was no hand washing facilities, the drains were blocked and rubbish was not being thrown away quickly enough.

Owner Mohammed Isaq has now been banned from running any food business until further notice.

£18,000 fine for poor food hygiene at UK hotel

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Douglas Powell

A hotel on the outskirts of Bedworth has been fined £18,000 after pleading guilty to six food hygiene offences.

The Royal Court Hotel, in Keresley, was also ordered to pay costs of £7,400.

Magistrates at Nuneaton Justice Centre heard that Britannia Hotels, who own the hotel in Tamworth Road, had failed to maintain an adequate food safety management system.

Despite being told that Britannia had carried out its own inspection a month earlier, Coventry City Council food safety inspectors uncovered a catalogue of poor hygiene when they carried out a routine inspection in November last year.

In the main kitchen, inspectors found issues including a build-up of grease and food debris beneath and behind floor standing equipment and around pipework, dirty store rooms, rotting cupboard doors, mould inside the cupboards, a water filter caked in grease and damaged and mouldy fridge and freezer door seals.

In addition, the food display area in the restaurant was not being kept clean.

Inspectors found food debris in the hot cabinet and dirty food splashes on the plates inside it. The floor in the area was dirty and spilt food was found in the crevices surrounding the temporary floor.

UK dog found eating raw meat in illegal Co Armagh meat farm

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Douglas Powell

Pictures of a dog eating raw meatd being prepared for the human food chain in an illegal Co Armagh butchery, have been released by a council.

The owner of the premises Benard Muchan of Back Road, Mullaghbawn was arrested when police visited the shed in October 2012.

He pleaded guilty to ten offences relating to breaches of food safety regulations and was fined £10,000.

Newry and Mourne Council, which took the case, said conditions in the facility were “filthy.”

Environmental health officers called to scene found several beef carcases hanging in a makeshift butchery and cold room.

The council’s assistant director of environmental health Eoin Devlin said: “The premises, food contact surfaces and equipment were found to be in a filthy condition with decaying food debris and blood.

UK kebab shop owners fined for food safety and hygiene offences

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Douglas Powell

The UK really does have a more punitive system of fines.

The owners of an East Reading kebab shop have been fined more than £7,700 for a string of food safety and hygiene offences.

Directors Saddique Khan and Mohammad Amjid Khan admitted six charges at Reading Magistrates’ Court of persistently failing to meet safety and hygiene standards at the Kebabish Original restaurant.

The pair were fined £1,000 per offence, and ordered to pay the prosecution’s full costs of £1,612 as well as the £100 victim surcharge – totalling of £7,712 – on Friday.

The take-away owners were charged with failing to keep the kebab shop clean and in good repair, failing to train food handlers, having inadequate drainage facilities, not cleaning equipment and fittings in contact with food, food cross-contamination and failing to ensure the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point food-safety management system was being used.

The court heard Khan and Khan had been given time to improve the state of the London Road kebab shop under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulation 2013 but had failed to do so.

It was the bacillus cereus: £20k fine for UK caterers after hundreds of wedding guests get food poisoning

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Douglas Powell

A catering company has been fined £20,111 after hundreds of wedding guests were struck with food poisoning from eating contaminated rice.

Ealing Council’s food safety team were first alerted by the father of the bride on September 24, 2013, who that 90% of the 470 wedding guests were suffering with food poisoning.

However, the prosecution could only be based on the 93 guests who formally reported their symptoms of food poisoning to investigators.

Investigators linked the food poisoning with rice prepared by the Royal Club of 116 – 118 Ruislip Road, Greenford, which a Public Health England food examiner found to be ‘potentially injurious to health and/or unfit for human consumption’. It was found to contain E.coli – a bacteria associated with fecal contamination – and Bacillus bacteria.

Inspections of the Royal Club kitchen revealed serious food hygiene violations. Only one member of staff was trained in food safety. Both the head chef and remaining staff had not received any food safety training at all. Inspectors also discovered that The Royal Club had no refrigerated vehicles in which to safely transport food to events.

Australian importer fined $25K for not testing imported ham

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Douglas Powell

An importer has been fined $25,000 for failing to test 2241 kg Parma ham imported from Italy in 2011.

Paqualino Licastro, owner of Perth import company Topas Pty Ltd, was fined $3000 while the company was fined $22,000.

After breaching its import permit, the company then failed to act on a directive from the Department of Agriculture to move the ham to a cold-store facility. The department ordered that the ham be held pending sampling and testing for Staphylococcus, Listeria, E. coli and Salmonella before it could be sold or distributed.

Had the imported ham introduced foot-and-mouth disease into Australia, it could potentially cost more than $50 billion over 10 years, the department estimates.

Blood-covered cardboard and rat droppings found at UK supermarket sentenced for food hygiene offences

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Douglas Powell

Rat droppings on pallets of bottled water and cardboard covered in blood were just some of the shocking finds made at a supermarket in Slough.

The director and manager of Marwa Superstore in High Street have been fined and banned from managing food businesses after pleading guilty to a string of food safety offences.

Appearing at Slough Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, September 25 the owner of the store, Noor Al-Huda Ltd, company director, Raghad Kadham, and day-to-day manager, Mahdi Bourhan, were all fined and ordered to pay costs.

The offences included failure to keep food in a manner which protected it from contamination, failing to keep the premises clean, and failing to have procedures in place to keep the premises free from pests.

All three were also prohibited from being involved in the management of any food business with immediate effect.

Slough Borough Council food safety manager Ann Stewart said: “Marwa clearly haven’t learned their lessons because, despite repeated warnings and food safety rating of zero, a lot of the problems we found were similar to the ones that led to its closure two years ago.

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