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£60,000 fine for persistent food hygiene breaches (13 June 2016)
Date: 13/06/2016
A man who ran an illegal fish processing business and supplied food products unfit for human consumption has been fined £60,000 for multiple food hygiene and health and safety breaches.
Michael Adedpipe and his company Ades Limited were known to council officers at the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south London, as the company had previous been fined for a catalogue of offences committed in 2012 –
including selling bags of rice which had been contaminated by mice droppings.
In December 2014, Royal Borough of Greenwich Officers discovered an unauthorised fish processing and packaging business operating within a run-down building in Charlton, southeast London.
Royal Borough Environmental Health Officers raided the business, after it was found that they were supplying products across Europe illegally and in very poor sanitary conditions.
Officers condemned over 3,580kg of food products as not safe for human consumption – including mouldy fish found in a packaging room.
At Woolwich Crown Court, the company was fined £60,000 in total and ordered to pay costs of £2,195.31, as well as a victim impact order of £120.
The Judge warned that a repeat offence would result in a prison sentence for the director.
Royal Borough of Greenwich Cabinet Member for Community, Safety and Environment, Councillor Jackie Smith, said:
“The Royal Borough of Greenwich welcomes punitive action being taken against businesses blithely ignoring the law, even after formal warnings.
“We will continue to do all we can to protect the health of our residents through cracking down on such unsafe practices.”
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