Food Safety
17/06/2011
Coffee bar owner fined £3,300 after forcibly ejecting environmental health officer
A Bradford coffee bar owner and his former business partner have been fined a total of £3,300 after being found guilty of attempting to throw an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) off the premises during an inspection.
14/06/2011
Blackpool takeaway fined over £3,000 for cross-contamination of food
A Blackpool Chinese takeaway has been fined £2,500 after Environmental Health Officers discovered a serious risk of cross-contamination.
14/06/2011
Cake shop owner told “Go to jail or pay fine” of £8,500 for food hygiene offences
A Surrey cake shop owner has been warned he faces jail if he fails to pay £3,500 in fines for several serious food hygiene offences.
07/06/2011
Food manufacturer fined £15,000 after worker loses two fingers in machine
A food manufacturer has been fined after a cleaner lost two fingers in a potato processing machine at its Telford site.
07/06/2011
Construction firm and subcontractor fined over £200,000 after worker crushed by van
A motorway construction firm and its traffic management subcontractor have been fined a total of £202,000 after a worker employed by another subcontractor was killed while working on the M25 motorway.
01/06/2011
Pizza parlour fined over £1,500 for filthy premises
A pizza takeaway owner has been fined for food hygiene offences after admitting his premises were filthy.
11/04/2011
Catering firm fined £57,000 for producing food in insanitary conditions
A sandwich firm has been fined £57,000 after Enviromental Health Officers (EHO) found food being produced in insanitary conditions.
16/02/2011
Restaurant owner fined £10,500 for “worst” rat infestation seen
The owner of a rat-infested café at a Huntingdon equestrian centre has been fined £10,500 for conditions that one pest controller described as the worst he had seen in 20 years.
10/11/2010
Restaurant owner fined for attempting to bribe environmental health officer
A food business operator has been fined for attempting to bribe an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) after being told poor hygiene standards were likely to land him in court.
22/09/2010
Takeaway which is “only safe for rats” is fined £17,500 for food hygiene offences
A judge fined a Devon restaurant owner £17,500 for food hygiene offences and said only rats and mice were safe to eat there.
22/09/2010
Restaurant fined £13,600 for failing food hygiene standards
A Chinese restaurant has been fined £11,500 after Environmental Health Officers (EHO) uncovered ‘disgraceful’ conditions and poor hygiene at the premises.
22/09/2010
Café owner given unusual sentence for food hygiene offences
A café owner has been given a four-week curfew following a prosecution for food hygiene offences.
26/07/2010
Fast food chain ordered to pay £19,000 for “appalling and unacceptable” Food Hygiene offences
An international Fast Food Chain has been ordered to pay nearly £19,000 after Westminster environmental health officers found ‘appalling’ standards of hygiene in its London Leicester Square branch.
26/07/2010
Failing to act on a food hygiene notice lands owner with £2,175 bill
A Warwickshire takeaway owner who admitted 20 food hygiene charges has been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after ignoring notices urging improvement.
26/07/2010
Worker loses hand in emery cloth incident; firm fined £17,759 for failing to protect worker
A court has heard how a worker had his hand torn off in an incident while working for a County Durham based company. Details of how the employee lost his hand while working on a metalworking lathe at the firm's premises at the town of Peterlee's South West Industrial Estate were heard at Peterlees Magistrates' Court.
26/07/2010
Restaurant owner fails to appear at court to answer food hygiene charges
A Surrey restaurant owner has been found guilty after failing to appear at court to face two food hygiene charges. The owner of the Chinese restaurant was fined £2,180 in his absence for four offences at Redhill magistrates court, plus a £15 victim surcharge.
23/07/2010
Leicestershire restaurant fined £1,750 for poor food hygiene standards
An Indian restaurant with poor food hygiene standards has been prosecuted by Charnwood Borough Council, Leicestershire.
16/07/2010
Restaurant owner banned from food business and given jail sentence
A Birmingham restaurant owner has been given a suspended jail sentence and banned from running a food business, after Environmental Health Officers (EHO) found live mice in the premises.
16/06/2010
Restaurant fined £19,610 after causing a salmonella outbreak
A Chinese restaurant has been fined £10,000 after six diners were hospitalised with salmonella food poisoning.
16/06/2010
Butcher fined £6,500 for failing to clean up his act
A butcher who had a history of poor compliance and failed to improve food safety standards despite help from food safety officers has been fined £5,500.
16/06/2010
Retailer fined for selling untraceable caviar and for food hygiene offences
A London retailer has been fined £4,365 for selling caviar of an unknown source as top quality beluga along with food hygiene offences.
16/06/2010
Takeaway owner fined £6,000 for failing food safety standards
A takeaway owner in Staffordshire has been fined £3,500 after failing to put in place adequate procedures to control pests, poor cleaning and failing to protect food from contamination.
16/06/2010
Workers finger severed in mixing machine, food manufacturer fined £7,080
The employers of a man whose hand was severely injured on a poorly-guarded spice mixing machine were sentenced today.
13/11/2009
Supermarket fined for ignoring staff training - Food safety news item from LRB
The company behind a Sussex supermarket has received an £11,000 fine after ignoring Environmental Health Officers’ (EHO) pleas to provide staff with essential food hygiene training.
12/11/2009
Takeaway owner fined £13,000 for not cleaning up his act
The owner of a takeaway has been fined for trying to clean a kebab grill with the meat still in position. The owner had been warned numerous times by Leeds City Council to improve conditions at the takeaway.
11/11/2009
Mice infestation closes Middlesbrough food store, owner fined £6,000
A food store owner has been fined £6,000 for allowing an infestation of mice to overrun his premises.
04/11/2009
A Midhurst store has been fined £11,000 and made to pay costs of nearly £4000 following breaches of food hygiene legislation.
During a routine food hygiene inspection, Officers of Environmental Health Services found mouldy food for sale within the store.
01/11/2009
£10k fine and banned from operating a food business for rotten food
A Southend restaurant owner has been banned from operating a food business after being caught stocking of out-of-date and rotten food.
01/11/2009
Company directors fined £6,000 for rodent infestation
Two company directors have been fined £3,000 each after Environmental Health Officers discovered a dangerous mice infestation at an Essex pizza restaurant.
30/10/2009
Chicken with maggots? Not a good combination in a butchery
A London butcher’s shop was closed down by Environmental Health Officers (EHO) after a customer found maggots in a piece of chicken.
30/10/2009
Bakery lands in hot water - food safety and hygiene news
A bakery has been fined for failing to ensure it had a hot water supply for washing utensils. When Environmental Health Officers inspected the bakery in Hendon
29/10/2009
Cleaning fondant enrober costs employee fingertips - food industry accident
Oxford based company fined for not having suitable risk assessment or guarding in place.