Newport take-away owner pleads guilty to nine hygiene offences
A Newport chinese take-away has been fined £2,385 after admitting it failed to maintain satisfactory hygiene standards.
Guo Tai Wu, business operator of Peking House in Baddeley Court, Newport pleaded guilty to nine food hygiene offences when he appeared at Telford Magistrates Court today.
Mr Wu was also ordered to pay £2,970 costs and a victim surcharge of £15 following a Telford & Wrekin Council prosecution after an investigation by the Council’s Environmental Health team.
Offences which contravened the Food Hygiene Regulations 2006, included failing to ensure that food handlers were wearing protective clothing, failing to ensure that the premises were kept clean, failing to store food appropriately and failing to provide adequate supervision and training to food handlers.
All offences for which Mr Wu has pleaded guilty relate to 18 February 2011.
