UK: Agency comments on meat hygiene story - (Food Standards Agency)
November 28, 2007 – 8:07 pmDavid Statham, Director of Enforcement at the Food Standards Agency, spoke today on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme following a report about the enforcement of food hygiene regulations. The programme looked at a company called McLaren Foods, which allegedly delivered meat from poorly refrigerated vans to restaurants and public institutions. A whistleblower told the Today programme that there were serious hygiene concerns when transporting meat and that the company practised ‘door-stepping’ leaving meat outside a delivery premises if there was no one there to collect it.
David Statham told Today that such behaviour ‘would be against law’. ‘It’s not stored at the right temperature and it’s exposed to risk of contamination.’ The company has subsequently gone into administration. Any company that delivers either fresh or frozen meat to their customers has a legal responsibility to ensure their product is safe to eat and is of the quality expected by […]
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