Health & safety
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Scottish and Irish suppliers of hand-dived scallops, used in fine dining restaurants across the country, are at risk of going out of business because of draconian EU regulations. The rules, which were reinforced last year, have taken their toll on suppliers as they prevent them from selling scallops whole.
Posted: 26 January 2012 | 11:24
A Chinese restaurant in Greenwich has been handed a record fine of £54,000 and its owners have been banned from running restaurants in the future after it failed to clean up its act. The Peninsula restaurant, 85 Bugsbys Way, SE10 pleaded guilty in Woolwich Crown Court to 18 breaches of food hygiene...
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 13:24
Police have begun an investigation into allegations that food served by Eurest at a London crown court were spiked with urine. The advocates' lounge in Snaresbrook Crown Court was closed after police were contacted when judges and barristers complained the food smelled "a bit off".
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 12:10
The luxury four-red-AA star Tylney Hall hotel in Rotherwick, Hampshire, has apologised to customers affected by a food poisoning incident, which landed the property with fines and costs of more than £40,000. Three people were struck down with the campylobacter form of food poisoning...
Posted: 13 January 2012 | 10:36
The Welsh Assembly Government is expected to publish proposals today to force all food businesses to display a food hygiene rating on their premises, with with the threat of a fine if they do not. Restaurants and takeaways could face a maximum £1,000 fine...
Posted: 14 December 2011 | 11:14
Heston Blumenthal has hit back at a report claiming that many of the diners affected by the norovirus outbreak at the Fat Duck in 2009 could have been spared if the restaurant had acted sooner. Blumenthal closed his iconic three-Michelin-starred restaurant for two weeks in February 2009.
Posted: 06 December 2011 | 12:54
Parents of two infants who were hospitalised after staff at a Sheffield Toby Carvery accidentally filled their children's beakers with pipe cleaner have demanded answers from the chain's parent company, Mitchells & Butlers.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 14:44
More than three-quarters of British-grown oysters contain norovirus, new research from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found. The study, which tested 39 UK growing beds across the UK, discovered that 76% of oysters had traces of the winter vomiting bug...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 11:09
Hamburger restaurant chain Byron has announced it is to stop serving its hamburgers rare, following the intervention of a local authority. The group, which operates restaurants across London, said that owing to one local authority - which it declined to name - it would no longer offer its hamburgers cooked less than medium rare.
Posted: 14 November 2011 | 18:52
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) has launched a new free online training tool for entry-level workers handling food. The Food Hygiene Training...
Posted: 12 October 2011 | 10:40
The Government is set to scrap or simplify 60 regulations governing the food and hospitality industry, following feedback from the industry. Tourism minister John Penrose (announced the move today after the public and businesses made 600 comments as part of the Government's Red Tape Challenge.
Posted: 29 September 2011 | 10:20
Don't get burned by ignoring the potentially devastating problems caused by kitchen extract systems and ventilation ductwork, says Ian Bartle
Posted: 19 September 2011 | 14:34
The owner of a London sandwich bar has been fined £15,500 and ordered to pay costs in excess of £3,000 after safety officers found a cockroach in their cup of tea. Daljit Singh Randhawa, the owner of Pavarotti's Sandwich Bar on the Royal Exchange, pleaded guilty on 7 September to two Food Safety offences.
Posted: 15 September 2011 | 17:36
Food hygiene inspectors have closed down popular Cantonese restaurant New World in London's Gerrard Square following a suspected mice infestation. Inspectors from Westminster City Council visited the premises on Thursday last week...
Posted: 18 July 2011 | 11:20
A Handpicked Hotels venue has been fined £4,000 after a guest suffered kidney failure as a result of eating undercooked duck. The guest, from Northern Ireland, visited the Priest House Hotel in Castle Donington for a business conference last May.
Posted: 27 May 2011 | 16:30
The responsibility for fire safety was transferred from the fire department to the owner or employer five years ago. Since then a number of incidents have occured in hotels that have resulted in deaths
Posted: 19 May 2011 | 11:17
A Bexhill caterer has been fined almost £2,000 after a customer complaint led to a full investigation by environmental health officers. Trafford Catering was inspected after a member of the public complained to Rother District Council about a sandwich bought from the firm, according to www.bexhillobserver.net.
Posted: 16 May 2011 | 11:53
An increasing number of chefs are being diagnosed with an allergy or food intolerance but how does this affect their work? Emily Manson reports
Posted: 09 May 2011 | 19:18
The owners of a Cornish hotel destroyed by fire which killed three people have been fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £62,000 costs for failing to meet fire safety standards. Firefighters described the fire at the 54-bedroom Penhallow hotel in Newquay, on 18 August 2007, as the worst British hotel fire in 40 years.
Posted: 05 May 2011 | 12:00
A London Vietnamese restaurant has been fined more than £5,000 after rodent faeces were found in the food. The Chung Viet restaurant in Deptford High Street was prosecuted after Lewisham Council's Environmental Health Food Safety team also discovered the premises to be infested with mice and cockroaches.
Posted: 28 March 2011 | 10:55
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