2016-09-03

after reading about crooks takeaway place thought these may raise a few eyebrows

Indian takeaway owner Mohammed Zaman, who has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a customer with a nut allergy, was still selling "nut-free" curries containing peanuts on the day after the tragedy, trading standards officers have said.

Paul Wilson, 38, died after ordering a chicken tikka masala from the Indian Garden restaurant, in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, on 30 January 2014.

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A director of a Leeds takeaway has admitted to what an industry watchdog described as one of the “worst cases” of food fraud they had ever seen.

The court heard inspectors made a test purchase of five dishes over the Just Eat website from Tasty Balti - and all five were not as the menu described. Public health analysts found the ‘lamb curry’ was in fact beef, the ‘lamb doner kebab’ billed as ‘100 per cent lamb’ was actually 1-5 per cent lamb and the remaining meat was poultry.

Prosecutor Derek Hallam said the Margherita pizza, described as using mozzarella cheese, was made with part artificial cheese and the ham pizza, which also had the mozzarella issue, was made with turkey not ham.

The final dish, a chicken tikka masala, had been coloured using a non-permitted food colouring.

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Takeaway owners are to face a new testing programme, after a watchdog found nearly a third of lamb takeaways it checked contained a different meat.

The Foods Standards Agency (FSA) found that 43 out of 145 samples of lamb takeaways - usually curries or kebabs - were wrongly described.

The FSA said 25 of the samples were found to contain only beef, which is cheaper than lamb.

Chicken and turkey were also found, but no samples contained horsemeat.

As a priority, local authorities are now being asked to test 300 samples of lamb from takeaways, starting at the beginning of May.

Takeaway owners are also being warned that they can be fined up to £5,000 for mislabelling food.

"Prosecutions have taken place against business owners for mislabelling lamb dishes, but the recurring nature of the problem shows there needs to be a renewed effort to tackle this problem," said Andrew Rhodes, chief operating officer at the FSA.

"Clearly the message isn't getting through to some businesses," he added.

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The consumer organisation Which? found an even higher instance of contamination, after a series of tests in London and Birmingham

It found 40% of lamb takeaways contained other types of meat, with some containing no lamb at all.

Of 30 samples tested in Birmingham, 16 - more than half - contained other meat.

In a similar experiment in London, meat in eight of the samples was not pure lamb.

As part of its campaign to "Stop Food Fraud", Which? is now calling on the government to take further action to restore customer confidence in the origins of meat.

"The government, local authorities and the FSA need to make tackling food fraud a priority and take tougher action to crack down on the offenders," said Richard Lloyd, the executive director of Which?

Horsemeat

Which? also wants the government to implement some of the recommendations in the Elliott Review, which followed last year's horsemeat scandal.

In the UK, 17 different beef products were found to contain traces of horsemeat, while supermarkets including Tesco and Asda were forced to withdraw products.

Among Professor Elliott's 48 interim recommendations, he suggested setting up a food crime unit, to police food standards better.

Earlier this week, the FSA also announced a new round of testing on beef products, to check for horsemeat.

The tests have been ordered by the European Commission following last year's scandal.

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the worst ones i remember and has put me off kebab shops is the lass that nearly died cos the owner had, had a shit and not washed his hands, the food was contaminated with human shite

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34337626

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/02/uk-shop-owners-sold-chocolate-cake-sprinkled-with-human-faeces

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