NEWS IN BRIEF'S
"Cheeky Monkey"
A man who had a monkey hidden in his
underpants was arrested at India's Indira
Gandhi International Airport in Delhi yesterday. The smuggler and two accomplices were changing planes on a flight from Bangkok to Dubai when arrested. The rare Lorris monkey-seven inches long and weighing just over five ounces-was recovered unharmed .
MEAT PLANT CLEANED WITH
UNDERPANTS!
The owner of an unlicensed meat processing plant could be jailed after inspectors found machinery was being cleaned with underpants.
Kamran Ajaib,27, supplied 20 tons of chicken per week to fast-food outlets from Hamza Poultry Ltd in Bristol.
Officials raided the premises after a piece of metal was found in a takeaway meal.
They found a series of health and safety breaches.
Ajaib, of Bristol, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with food hygiene regulations. He will be sentenced in crown court next month.
I wonder how these take-aways will be dealt with if they were purchasing illegal meat? They too should be brought to justice for buying from an illegal source? If you have satisfactory traceability records and buy from reputable suppliers this could not happen. Could it? Surely EHO's who inspect would have asked for traceability records for the suppliers meat and poultry to these takeways? So some apportioning of blame must fall on the heads of those Welsh authorities who were not doing their job properly....again. A Welsh authrority EHO was at the forefront and had massively fouled up in 2005 when they had failed to enforce the hygiene regulations at a local butcher who supplied vaccum packed meats to local schools in the area, resulting in contamination and food poisoning; leading to many children becoming ill with E.coli and one tradgic death of a 5 year old. I think queations should be asked if EHO's are the best way to use resources in the local authorites. Their studies and remit covers Housing, Health & Safety, Pollution and Public Health, along with Food. Surely it would be prudent to have a food safety specialist to inspect food premises? Or am I missing the point here?
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