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The operator of a Sudbury takeaway was fined £400 plus £15 victim surcharge yesterday (June 18) after being found guilty of failing to put in place a food safety management system as required by law. The lack of an adequate and robust set of hygiene procedures led to poor practices and standards being observed by officers from Babergh District Council during a series of visits to the premises.
Mr Feng Ming Yu who was the registered food business operator of “Hot Wok” at 50 North Street, Sudbury at the time of the offence, pleaded guilty to the charges during a hearing at Bury Magistrates’ Court.
Vincent Dréau, Babergh’s Food & Safety Officer said the Council was pleased with the outcome of the case. “A failure to keep an adequate food safety management system has the real potential to harm consumers. In the recently published public enquiry report into the 2005 Welsh E.coli outbreak in which more than 150 people suffered illness and where a five year old died, Professor Hugh Pennington highlighted the lack of an adequate food safety management system as a significant contributory factor into this particular outbreak. He further commented on the fact that all food businesses should ‘get to grips’ with fulfilling this particular requirement of food legislation to ensure the safety of the food they produce”.
“It was clear that in this case, Mr Feng had not got to grips with this issue”.
“Compliance with this particular requirement of food law is also one of the main criteria on which businesses are judged in Babergh’s ‘Scores on the Doors’ scheme which rates food businesses and which was launched earlier this year and which grades businesses on a scale from no to five stars” added Mr Dreau.
For more information on Scores on the Doors, visit Babergh’s website: www.babergh.gov.uk/babergh/scores
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