A Watford café owner has been successfully prosecuted by Watford Borough Council for seven offences of failing to manage food safety in his business and therefore putting the health of customers at risk.
The former owner and manager of a fast food restaurant in Southwark has pleaded guilty to a series of food safety offences after a cockroach was found in a takeaway Chinese meal ordered for a meeting of company directors.
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).
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is investigating an outbreak of a strain of Salmonella Newport infection among 30 people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since the beginning of December 2011. Cases of illness caused by the same strain have been confirmed in Scotland, Ireland and Germany.
The Agency’s latest public attitudes tracker shows that the main food safety issue people continue to be concerned about is food hygiene when eating out. Other issues include food poisoning and the use of additives in food.
The owner of a Tandooi restaurant has been found guilty and fined £3,635 for nine separate food hygiene offences, at Basildon Magistrates Court on Wednesday 18 January.
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