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Of mice and (chow) mein

According to the Food Standards Agency’s latest public attitudes tracker, the main food safety issue that causes people most concern continues to be food hygiene when eating out.
And it’s hardly surprising seeing as newspapers regularly carry stomach-churning tales about the state of various local restaurants after the owners are hauled before the courts by environmental health officials.
Just this week, in fact, a popular Chinese restaurant in south-east London was handed a record fine and branded a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ after admitting 18 beaches of food hygiene. More worrying though was that at the time of the newspaper report, the restaurant was still open for business.
Also hitting the headlines this week was a restaurant that was closed down after health inspectors found dozens of cockroaches and rodent droppings – and the news that it had reopened again despite the fact that the creatures were still running amok.
Frank’s Family Restaurant – one of three in the town of Hernando, Florida – was shut down at the end of last year when an inspector found 23 violations, 14 considered critical.
So while getting a case to court seems fairly straightforward, closing the door on a rancid restaurant is clearly much more tricky – a bit like throwing a mouse dropping in the Grand Canyon and waiting to hear it hit the bottom…
 



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