Perth takeaway fined $20k for poor food hygiene

A POPULAR takeaway in Perth’s CBD has been fined $20,000 for poor hygiene and selling food past its sell-by date.

City Provisions Pty Ltd was found to have breached cleanliness standards at 160 St Georges Terrace in Perth.

The City Provision To Go takeaway was convicted for breaches of the Food Act by the City of Perth for offenses which took place last year.

A Notification of Conviction said the business failed to maintain a standard of cleanliness and easily accessible hand-washing facilities between July 11 and 23.

During the same dates, the business also failed to have a temperature measuring device readily accessible at food premises where potentially hazardous food was handled.

Inspectors found food was sold past its use-by date on September 11 last year.

And between July 11 and December 18 last year, it failed to maintain equipment to a standard of cleanliness.

The takeaway also failed to ensure people who were undertaking and supervising food handling operations had skills and knowledge in food safety and hygiene.

And on December 18 last year it also sold food that was labelled in a manner that contravened a provision of the Food Standards Code.

City Provisions Pty Ltd was fined $20,000 plus costs of $2,218.30.

No one at City Provisions was available for comment when contacted by Community News.