The ice cream didn’t cost the customers £3,000 – it cost the owners of a buffet restaurant that in fines. Or to be more accurate, it cost the owners because they allowed cockroaches to stroll amongst the frozen dessert. It’s not easy to say how much business was lost as a result of the infestation […]
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Rat infestation pushes up the cost of a loaf of bread
The owners of a local convenience store in Hampshire were fined more than £35,000 for rat infested premises. There were very poor pest control records which indicated a continuing problem which was repeatedly ignored. The shop was closed for a preliminary 2 day period but was closed on a lengthy basis for more than 6 […]
How fine is a takeaway infested with insects?
When Ealing Council’s food safety inspectors did a routine inspeaction, they were shocked to find a takeaway infested with cockroaches. With such an infestation, they were found everywhere including behind the oven, on shelves, in a food store room, in a plug socket and even in the wash up area. Read more about the takeaway […]
Getting a large fine is not convenient
The owner of a convenience store who had no thought for food hygiene was fined over £6,000. The offenses included pest infestation and dirty food equipment too. Read more about the convenience store fined for pest infestations
The wrong type of fine, when mice come to stay
Officers from a Council’s health food team carried out a routine inspection on a Gastro pub in Surrey and when they followed up they found that no action had been taken. Silly owners – it cost the nearly £14,000 in fines. Read more about the Mouse infestation that landed a Surrey Pub with a £13k […]
Heavy fine if a cockroach eats one of your chips
KFC was fined 5 figures because unwanted guests – a cockroach and a mouse – were eating the food and making deposits. Another sentence…