We have compiled a list of 2012’s ten most popular food safety articles on theEHP. This list has been complied by analysing the most viewed articles on the site.
1. Opinion: Food Hygiene inspection – 5 top tips to reap the reward!!
Food Hygiene Ratings System – Gain the benefit; make the most of your inspection and reap the reward. 5 Top tips to help you achieve a 5 star rating! (by Jill Taylor)
2. Food Safety: E.coli O157 outbreak in Belfast
The Food Standards Agency is reminding people across the UK of the importance of following good food hygiene practice, and what to do if they go down with food poisoning.
3. Food Safety: Letchworth hotel fined after food poisoning at wedding (updated 21-06-12)
A Letchworth hotel was ordered to pay over £12000 by Hertford Magistrates Court last week after pleading guilty to two charges of poor food hygiene practice. The court heard that the Letchworth Hall Hotel had served food at a wedding in September last year which led to multiple cases of food poisoning.
It is worth noting that the evidence gathered for the offence of “rendering food injurious to health” [s.7(1) FSA’90] was the cook temperature record for the pate and the epidemiological study undertaken by the Health Protection Agency – no pate was formally sampled.
4. Food Safety: £54,000 fine and ban for owners of ‘disgraceful’ restaurant
The owners of Peninsula Chinese Restaurant displayed a disregard for food hygiene. They have also been banned from running restaurants in the future after being prosecuted for the second time in two years by Greenwich Council (Photos on Flickr).
5. Food Safety: How to make sure your HACCP system is working?
Everyone struggles to understand verification procedures, even experts. The more you find out about it, the less you realise you know. This is not surprising as Principle 6 Verification is perhaps the most complex. (By Anthony Bowmer of RSA Food Safety)
6. Food Safety: £10k fine for mouse droppings in baker’s kitchen (Updated 19-01-12)
A Twickenham baker has been hit with a £10,000 fine after being caught preparing bread, cakes and pastries in kitchens where environmental health officers found dozens of mouse droppings. Environmental Health officers acted after a tip off from a resident who found a dropping in a bread roll (Photos on Flickr).
7. Food Safety: CK’s Supermarket Ltd fined over £36,000 for Hygiene Offences
A supermarket company has been ordered by magistrates to pay £39,515 after admitting to a list of food hygiene offences at two of its Pembrokeshire stores. (Photo Gallery Below)
8. Food Safety: Poor hygiene standards leads to fine for takaway owner
THE owner of a Middlesbrough takeaway has been fined after inspectors discovered poor hygiene standards (Photo Gallery Below).
9. Food Safety: Slough Ming Chinese Takeaway fined £7,481
The owner of the Ming Chinese takeaway has been fined £7,481 by Maidenhead Magistrates Court. Mr Koon Fai Hui was prosecuted by Slough Borough Council for his restaurant, in Scarfell Road, being heavily infested with cockroaches causing the food to be unfit for human consumption and a threat to public health. He was also prosecuted for failing to have adequate procedures in place to control pests.
10. Food Safety: Scottish botulism outbreak report published
Health Protection Scotland, on behalf of the Incident Management Team, have published the final report into an outbreak of foodborne botulism in Scotland in November 2011.
