UK: Did nobody check? - (Beverley Guardian)
June 3, 2008 – 6:30 pmS Ferguson writes that the strangest aspect of the Costa coffee shop saga is that apparently no-one from public health or hygiene departments inspected facilities which must have been installed before the shop opened: eg handwashing and toilet provision for customers (male, female and disabled) storage, preparation and handling of food and drink, and safe disposal of food waste.
If they had, surely they would have alerted the planning department that change of use at the shoe shop had not been applied for or granted by the local authority, round the corner.
Failures in several departments seem to arise here, unless the various sections don’t communicate or cross check with each other.
Especially with summer time now here, it’s more than ever essential to check every facet of the preparation and serving of food, to guard against cross infection.
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