Islington Council has been to court again - this time winning a case brought against a Finsbury Park supermarket.
At Highbury Magistrates Court on 24 October 2006, Kennedy Adu-Amankwah proprietor of Morkola at 15 Station Place, Finsbury Park, N4, was fined £7,000 plus costs of £2,560.54 for a series of food safety offences.
He pleaded guilty to two charges. A fine of £2,000 was levied for each of two offences, for failing to implement an adequate hazard analysis system.
A further fine of £3,000 was awarded because fish products, including prawns and crabmeat, which had already been placed under a Detention of Food Notice by the council, was subsequently illegally sold.
Cllr George Allan, Executive Member for Customer Focus, Islington Council commented, "Prosecutions of this type are usually a last resort for the council's Environmental Health team. We invest a significant amount of time and effort in working with traders across the borough to help them put necessary food handling safety measures in place.
"However when the public's health is put at risk in this way, we will act immediately to prevent any serious incidents occurring. We will subsequently seek to prosecute any trader who knowingly breaks the law, where measures put in place to protect the residents of Islington have been blatantly ignored."
Environmental health officers also removed and destroyed a quantity of giant African land snails - that are illegal to import to the UK - from the same premises.
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