ONTARIO: Grocer is fined over mice - (TheStar.com)
January 30, 2008 – 6:54 pmThe owners of Ontario’s second largest supermarket chain have, according to this story, been fined $15,625 after pleading guilty in provincial offences court to a charge of failing to prevent a rodent infestation.
A City of Toronto health inspector laid the charge after finding the A&P warehouse in the west end was overrun with mice last fall.
The warehouse, which serves 250 Dominion, A&P and Food Basics stores in Ontario, was closed for two days in September while the problem was cleared up.
Jim Chan, the city’s manager of food safety, was cited as saying the warehouse on The West Mall has since passed two public health department inspections without incident and is in much better condition, adding, “They have done a lot of work since the closure to bring the warehouse up to standard. The warehouse now has a very good sanitation program and pest control program.”
Chan was further cited as saying […]
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