Category Archives: Restaurant Inspection

Failing food hygiene standards in Welsh primary schools, playgroups and after schools clubs

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Hundreds of children and elderly people are being served “substandard” food from kitchens which have failed food hygiene inspections.

Eight primary schools, three after school clubs, four playgroups, and 10 nursery and pre-schools across Wales scored just one or two on the 0-5 rating system in the last 12 months.

Elderly people have also been affected as 30 care homes, three day centres and one wales.food.hygine.grade.feb.14supported living complex were also given hygiene ratings of just one or two.

If a premises drops below a rating of three, their hygiene standards are considered inadequate.

All the inspections were carried out in the last year and are the most recent published on the FSA website – but some schools may have been re-inspected since.

Providence Hospital gift shop closed

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Health inspectors temporarily closed Lori’s Gift Shop at Providence Hospital, 1150 Varnum Street, NE DC; Murry’s Grocery Store, 610 H St. NE DC; Joe’s Noodle House, 1488-C Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md.; Wok N Roll, 604 H Street, NW DC; Ghar-E-Kabob, 944 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, Md.

All the restaurants have passed re-inspection are back in business.

Health inspectors closed Lori’s Gift shop inside Providence Hospital on Varnum Street, NE citing rodent droppings plus the observation of a bag of food chewed on by some sort of pest.

This is not the first time Lori’s has been closed by inspectors. The DC Health Department shut down the gift shop in December 2013 citing 5 violations including rodents.

Illinois health department shuts down 11-year-old girl’s cupcake business (spoiler alert; there’s a reason)

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Chloe Stirling, an 11-year old from Madison County, dreams of one day running her own bakery. Starting at such a young age, the sky is the limit for her baking dreams. And if state and local regulators have their way, that bakery will, according to the Illinois Policy Institute, not be in Illinois.

“Hey, Cupcake!” is Chloe’s first start at a business, and she did well enough to earn $80 a week. But Chloe has been shut down by county regulators for violating onerous rules that vanilla cupcake 3require an 11-year old baker to finance a brand new and dedicated kitchen.

According to Illinois state law, food business run from home can’t be run out of a home kitchen. For an 11-year-old to start toward her dream in Illinois, she needs to overcome piles of regulations. A completely separate kitchen must be set up and outfitted with mandated equipment and supplies. It must then be inspected and issued a permit. It’s not enough for the family’s home kitchen to be inspected and permitted; they must build another kitchen.

14K fine; Australian noodle bar fined for ‘putrid’ conditions

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A cockroach-infested noodle bar operating in Tuggeranong Hyperdome has been fined almost $14,000 for potentially dangerous food safety breaches.

Health inspectors showed up at the BNL Noodle Bar, owned by Taku and Mars Monkey Pty Ltd, about 2pm in April 2011, just after the lunch rush.

What they found at the eatery had the potential to cause a public health emergency, a BNL.uggeranongcourt heard on Thursday.

Prosecutor Anthony Williamson described the scene as “putrid”, with inspectors finding significant volumes of cockroaches, alive and dead.

They found dirt, grime, food debris, inadequate washing facilities, and the walls and floor had not been cleaned for “a considerable amount of time”.

No action had been taken to control the entry of the pests, the court heard.

The noodle bar was shut down temporarily by the health inspectors, and its parent company, consisting only of one individual, was taken to court for multiple breaches of food safety laws.

The company was sentenced in the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday by Magistrate Bernadette Boss.

The company’s lawyer said the owner of the business was struggling financially, having bought the company for $130,000 in 2010, and now finding it difficult to make a profit.

The owner has since taken action to fix the problems, completing a $100,000 renovation, which now made it fully compliant with food safety laws.

UK pub owner fined £12,500 over food hygiene failings

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The owner of a Saundersfoot pub has been fined a total of £12,500 by Haverfordwest Magistrates this week after admitting to five food hygiene offences.

Ian Griffiths of The Royal Oak Inn, Wogan Terrace, was also ordered to pay £2778.37 costs to Pembrokeshire County Council at the hearing on Monday.

The Council brought the case following breaches found at the pub during a routine the-royal-oakinspection in October, 2012, by officers from the Authority’s Public Protection Division.

As well as revealing the lack of an adequate food safety management system, officers found evidence of food not being protected against contamination; unclean structures and equipment; a lack of training of staff and various out-of-date foods and inadequately labelled foodstuffs such that effective stock rotation could not be safely carried out.

The business agreed to voluntarily close until immediate cleaning and disinfection and stock checks had been carried out.

Australia has a food safety problem; eateries in Capital ignoring hygiene standards

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Maybe it’s payback to the federal politicians in Australia who are utterly clueless about basic food safety and steps to improve public accountability, but Canberra food businesses are flouting food safety laws such as installing a wash basin and cleaning the kitchen, according to the territory’s chief health officer.

The number of improvement notices issued to restaurants, cafes and food stalls in the second half of last year  was more than double  the canberranumber for the same period in 2012.

While some of the 163 notices  were for minor infringements, chief health officer Dr Paul Kelly said “we’re still finding significant problems” with general hygiene standards in some premises.

Among the problems were business owners failing to install a basin for hand washing in food-preparation areas.

Others did not maintain clean kitchens or had been caught out

not storing food at correct temperatures.

“It’s pretty standard infrastructure that you’d think would just be second nature,” Dr Kelly said.

“We’re trying … to work with industry to get them to fix their act by themselves.”

“I think we’ve got a way to go still.’’ he said.

‘‘People who don’t have somewhere to wash their hands in a food-preparation area, with running water and soap – that sort of thing is still there,” he said.

Mr. Heavyfoot goes to buy milk (M. Piedlourd va achete(r) du lait)

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Mr. Heavyfoot was a recurring character on the Canadian sketch rest.inspection.mr.heavy.foot.jan.14comedy, Kids in the Hall, 20 years ago, featuring Dave Foley.

His daughter, 10-year-old Alina, has employed her father for a new take that she wrote and directed.

But that’s not France, the A grade in the window makes me think Los Angeles.

 

Operation Hot Water: Hotels in India upset over hygiene raids

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The special ‘Operation Hot Water’ drive launched by the Ernakulam district panchayat  and  the health department against eateries and other food outlets has angered the Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association (KHRA)  which feels they are overstepping their duties.

KHRA state general secretary , Jose Mohan warned  the association would strongly protest the closure of hotels by the civic authorities and the health department, adding, Operation Hot water“They have no legal right to inspect the quality of food served take samples or seize stale food. They can only check the general hygiene of eateries. Going by the provisions of the Food Safety Act, only a qualified food analyst can collect food samples.”

District panchayat president  Eldhose Kunnappally, however justified the drive, saying that Operation Hot Water was essential to curb the possible outbreak of water-borne diseases. “Though the Food Safety Authority alone has the right to check the quality of food served, civic bodies can inspect the sanitation in eateries. … During the raid we found  many hotels and bars e functioning in very poor hygiene conditions.”

Water? We don’t need no stinkin’ water, we’ve got gloves; Subway in Maryland

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Russ Ptacek of WUSA CBS Channel 9 reports that armed guards at Beltway Plaza Mall prevented our camera crew from recording video of restaurants cited and closed for operating without running water, but a producer managed to take iPhone photos before STINKINGBADGES-1ebeing escorted out.

In Greenbelt, citing operating without running water during a water main break, health inspectors temporarily closed: Subway, Beltway Plaza Mall, 6000 Greenbelt Road; Three Brothers, Beltway Plaza Mall, 6000 Greenbelt Road; Kalpena Dip-N-Depot, Beltway Plaza Mall, 6000 Greenbelt Road; and Heaven Bakery, Beltway Plaza Mall, 6000 Greenbelt Road.

All the restaurants passed re-inspection and are back in business.

At the Beltway Plaza Mall Subway, a manager told us he didn’t believe operating during the water outage was a problem because workers wear gloves.

Health experts say contaminated hands can contaminate clean gloves and workers should wash hands every time they change tasks, especially after using the restroom.

Falafel Feast fails 3 NYC inspections in 2 weeks with flies

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A Kips Bay falafel restaurant failed three inspections in a row this month, after Health Department inspectors found live roaches, filth flies and pesticides that were misused, city records show.

Falafel Feast, at 413 Second Ave., was initially shut down Jan. 6, when inspectors slapped it with 56 violation points for problems including roaches, flies, misuse of pesticides and Falafel Feastfood that was not protected from contamination, according to Health Department records.

During the inspection, the DOH found a can of King Pine Ant and Roach Killer under a sink, earning the restaurant violation points for using a prohibited residential pesticide in a food preparation space, the agency said.

The restaurant was inspected again on Jan. 10, but inspectors decided it should remain closed and issued another 20 violation points for similar issues, including roaches and flies, plus a failure to maintain the plumbing system, according to records.

The Health Department returned a third time on Jan. 14 but found that Falafel Feast was still plagued by roaches and flies, records show. Inspectors issued 37 violation points and ordered that the restaurant remain closed.

The eatery was gated as of Wednesday afternoon, and the phone number had been disconnected.