Health inspectors find bucket full of RATS in a kebab shop…named Delight
The takeaway was served with an emergency hygiene notice and a fine
A TAKEAWAY has been banned from using some of its buildings – after health inspectors found a bucket of RATS there.
The kebab shop – named Delight 2 – was served with an emergency hygiene notice after a complaint.
Inspectors made a surprise visit and found live and dead rats, rat droppings and gnawed packaging there.
Magistrates upheld the order and banned Delight 2 in Didcot, Oxfordshire, from using its food preparation building until further notice.
In a damning verdict Oxford Magistrates' Court said the buildings constituted an "imminent risk to health".
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Magistrates also ordered the business to pay £1,280 in costs to South Oxfordshire District Council.
The takeaway will now only be able to use the building again when it has eliminated all pests and ensured the building cannot be accessed by them in the future.
A spokesman for Delight 2 said: "The pest control people have been and it is all fine now. We have dealt with the problem."
The council's cabinet member for environmental health Tony Harbour told the : "Most businesses work hard to provide high food safety standards.
"Cases like this show that those who fail to do this will face swift and decisive action from our officers to protect the public.
"In this case a member of the public made a complaint and we were at the premises later that same day to investigate."
Apple Pizza, in Edmonton, north London, had a history of poor hygiene, including a bad cleaning regime since 2012.
Photos of the grimy and grubby takeaway restaurant showed filthy wiring sprinkled with food, a rusty and dirty chip pan and the floor littered with mouse droppings.
The owner, Kamran Javadpour pleaded guilty to 14 breaches in food safety and hygiene.
The 48-year-old was given an eight-week-sentence on June 2, suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay an £80 victim surcharge.
At the sentencing at Tottenham Magistrates’ Court the company was fined £2,000, ordered to pay £2,542.44 in costs and a £120 victim surcharge.
Enfield Council’s cabinet member for environment, Councillor Daniel Anderson, said: “It is completely unacceptable for food businesses to put residents at risk through shoddy working practices and poor basic hygiene and we will take action when we find those failings.”
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