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Dead rats, crabs make Sydney food shame list

AAPMay 19, 2009 11:13am +-PrintEmailShare

Shame file ...A pie shop, Chinese restaurant and fish market are the latest additions to the list

A SYDNEY restaurant with a dead rodent in its storage area and a fish market that stored crabs in a toilet cubicle are new additions to the NSW Government's name-and-shame list.

Choy Restaurant in Belmore Rd, Randwick, in Sydney's east, has been slapped with three fines worth $1980 for having a dead rodent in the storage area, as well as vermin activity and unclean premises.

Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said Jemes Fish Market on Liverpool Rd in Ashfield, in the city's inner west, was hit with two fines of $660 for storing live crabs in a toilet cubicle.

"This is one of the most outrageous cases of food storage I have ever heard about,' Mr Macdonald said.

"It is unhygienic and is just not fair on consumers who pay good money for their food.

"The past 12 months has seen a number of disturbing breaches on the name-and-shame list, including cockroaches, rats, a band-aid, a cigarette butt and now this case."

Another of the 45 additions to the website this week is Jesters at Forestville in Sydney's north, fined $1980 for having containers of raw foods encrusted with food waste and cockroach activity.

Ocean King House Restaurant on the Princes Hwy in Kogarah was fined $990 for evidence of pests in the premises, failing to store food correctly and misuse of hand-washing facilities.

The full list can be found at the NSW Food Authority's website at http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/penalty-notices

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