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PUB COMPANY FINED FOR FOOD SAFETY BREACHES
Posted on 23/04/08
J. Milton

A PUB that used out-of-date food products has been successfully prosecuted by Charnwood Borough Council.
Representatives from the Mulberry Pub Company, which runs the Mulberry Tree, in White Horse Lane, Birstall, admitted four breaches of food safety legislation and were fined a total of 2,000 when they appeared before Loughborough Magistrates.
Officers from Charnwoods Food Safety Team visited the pub on November 7 last year following a complaint.
They discovered cream a week past its sell by date still in use, serious breaches of food hygiene legislation and poor structural conditions in the kitchen.
The Mulberry Pub Company pleaded guilty to failing to put in place, implement and maintain a permanent food safety management system and that the floor surface in the kitchen and food preparation area had not been maintained in a sound condition
They also admitted two further charges that the floor surface in the dry store room and pot wash room had not been maintained in a good repair or condition and using out of date food at the premises.
Magistrates fined the company 500 for each offence and also ordered them to pay 1,200 in costs and a 15 victim surcharge.
Nadine Buckland, Charnwoods Specialist Environmental Health Officer, said: Selling food past its use by date and also selling food that is unfit is a serious contravention of food hygiene legislation.
The dirty conditions found in the kitchen, food preparation area and the extremely filthy conditions in the pot wash room were totally unacceptable.
Cllr David Slater, Charnwood Borough Councils Cabinet member for Housing and Health, welcomed the verdict.
He said: Cases like this illustrate a total disregard for customer safety and a flagrant breach of the law.
The health and safety of the public is of paramount importance and we will always take the strictest action to ensure high standards of hygiene and cleanliness are met.
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