UK: Food standards agency blames WAG underfunding for delaying report - (Media Wales)
February 29, 2008 – 8:40 pmhttp://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/02/29/food-standards-agency-blames-wag-underfunding-for-delaying-report-91466-20538901/
A lack of money meant problems with the way Bridgend council conducted food hygiene inspections were not made public until after the 2005 E.coli outbreak began.
The public inquiry heard the Food Standards Agency Wales the body charged with inspecting the inspectors found deficiencies in the authoritys environmental health department in February 2004.
The agencys director Joy Whinney was cited as saying a report highlighting the issues, which could have helped Bridgend address them, should have been published six weeks later.
But she told the inquiry serious underfunding of the FSA by the Welsh Assembly Government led to staff shortages, which resulted in the report being delayed until October 2005, after E.coli had claimed the life of five-year-old Mason Jones.
The public inquiry has already heard how Bridgend councils environmental health officers made a string of blunders in the months and years before the outbreak.
Addressing Mrs Whinney, senior counsel to the inquiry […]
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