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This week at theEHP we report on public attitudes to food, a student survey and lots of prosecutions.
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The FSA has published its latest research in several areas of study. The areas covered including consumer attitudes towards the decontamination of meat and the use of freezing to reduce campylobacter in chicken livers. A summary of the research and links are available here.
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Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection: Council holds illegal waste transporter to account
A driver claiming to be a licensed waste carrier has been caught out by environmental action officers. Andrew Jarrett, of Low Grange Crescent, Belle Isle, was unable to provide the waste carrier’s licence he claimed he had that would allow him to profit from legally transporting scrap metal for disposal.
Environmental Protection: Custodial Sentence for Fly-Tipping
Mr Erikas Pocevicius of Cobden Road, Peterborough pleaded guilty at Huntingdon Magistrates Court to fly-tipping in a prosecution brought by Huntingdonshire District Council.
Environmental Protection: Court conviction for noisy neighbour – and stereo equipment seized
A noisy neighbour has had all her stereo equipment seized and left £1,764 out of pocket after being prosecuted for noise nuisance.
Food Safety
Food Safety: FSA publish latest research
The Agency has produced a summary of its research published in April to June 2013. Several areas of research were covered, including consumer attitudes towards the decontamination of meat and the use of freezing to reduce campylobacter in chicken livers.
Food Safety: FSA publish public attitudes tracker results
The latest results from the Agency’s Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker for May 2013 have been published.
Student Survey: Deliberate & Malicious Attacks on the UK’s Food Supplies
Is the UK Prepared for a Deliberate or Malicious Attack on its Food Supplies? A Stakeholder Preparedness Survey
Food Safety: Fast food operator takes away fine from court
The owner of a city centre takeaway has been ordered to pay nearly £2,500 by magistrates for allowing staff to pile loose bags of putrid rubbish behind his shop.
Food Safety: Pontypridd Takeaway Prosecuted For Food Hygiene Offences
A Pontypridd takeaway has been fined more than £2,000 following a successful prosecution by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council because of a catalogue of food hygiene offences that could risk public health.
Food Safety: Restaurant owner fined for hygiene breaches
The owner of a Middlesbrough restaurant has been fined after breaching food hygiene rules. Environmental Health Officers from Middlesbrough Council’s Community Protection Service visited Jamal’s in Corporation Road, Middlesbrough on February 19 to carry out a routine food hygiene inspection.
Food Safety: Staff run away from rat infested restaurant
A Tottenham restaurant was so infested with rats and mice that when council officers and police paid a surprise visit, the staff ran away.
Food Safety: Hygiene breaches cost takeaway over £5,000
A fish and chip shop owner in Netherton has landed a court bill of more than £5,000 after a series of poor hygiene standards were discovered.
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Health & Safety
Health & Safety: Shop owner prosecuted for underage sunbed session
A Blackwood shop owner has been taken to court and fined for allowing the sale of a sunbed session to a child during a council test purchase operation.
Housing
Housing: Hull landlord prosecuted for harassing tenants
A property management company which turned off the electricity supply to two privately rented flats in Hull has been fined a total of £2,000 plus council costs of £600 and a victim surcharge of £15.
Housing: Prominent Haringey landlord first to be fined under new HMO licensing scheme
An accredited Haringey landlord, with a large property portfolio, is the first to be fined under a special licensing scheme that regulates houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in the Harringay Ladder area.
Housing: Cardif Council prosecutes property company for poor standards
Cardiff Council’s Housing Enforcement Team has brought a successful prosecution against Topaz Property Company Ltd, which was fined £15 000 at Cardiff’s Magistrates Court on June 25th 2013, for offences under the Housing Act 2004 and the Licensing and Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation Regulations 2007.
Housing: Redbridge prosecutes irresponsible landlords
Landlords in Redbridge are reminded of their legal duties to tenants, as two more prosecutions are successfully won in court by the Council.
Housing: Landlord prosecuted in clean streets blitz
An Essex based landlord has been fined thousands of pounds for failing to sort out properties in a clean streets clamp down.
Public Health
Public Health: New study to give insight into public health risks of ESBL E. coli
A new study by Public Health England (PHE) and funded by the Department of Health will, for the first time, establish the most significant reservoirs of a strain of antibiotic resistant bacteria known as ESBL-positive E. coli that cause human illness in the UK.
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