A TOP country pub in Teignbridge faces court action over five alleged breaches of food safety and hygiene regulations.
Kingsteignton’s popular Passage House Inn was ‘in the dock’ this week for a catalogue of claimed cleanliness contraventions.
The charges, subject of a hearing at Newton Abbot Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, maintained that the pub failed to:
-Ensure premises were kept clean with floors, walls, pipe work, switches and equipment being dirty and greasy throughout the pub.
-Keep all fittings and equipment clean to avoid risk of contamination, in particular a tin opener blade and surround which were dirty and contained old food debris with a dirty utensil on the floor next to food debris.
-Ensure that walls and floor surfaces were in a sound condition and easy to clean – and to disinfect walls in the dry/refrigerator room and kitchen which were in poor repair. The kitchen floor surface was also in poor repair as was the silicone seal of the wash hand basin.
-Provide competent authority evidence of compliance with regulations with no current documented food safety management procedures available to view.
-Put in place a stock rotation system for high risk foods which prevented foods remaining on the market following the expiry of the use-by date – in particular double cream stored in a refrigerator four days past its use-by date.
The court heard the offences were uncovered on August 13 last year.
The charges, under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013, were due to be put to 65-year-old businessman Roger Haywood, of the Passage House Inn.
But his legal team told magistrates that he was medically unfit to attend.
The case was adjourned until November 1.