NSW Food Authority: Latest list of eateries slapped with food safety fines

Food authorities have released the latest list of NSW eateries to have breached food safety standards. See if your local cafe or restaurant has been named and shamed.

Popular eateries across the state have been named and shamed on the NSW Food Authority’s latest list of food safety breaches, including a Cantonese restaurant at Chatswood that received six separate penalties.

The NSW Food Authority publishes a name and shame list on its website highlighting businesses that it claims have breached food safety standards.

Breaches from the first quarter of 2021 have been added to the unenviable list with 11 businesses slapped with fines.

Hong Kong Kitchen Chatswood has been penalised by the NSW Food, Authority. Picture: Google Maps.

Hong Kong Kitchen at Chatswood was issued six penalties, the greatest number for any one eatery for the quarter.

It was fined $880 for each offence, including: Failing to ensure single use products were not reused; failing to have a temperature measuring device at the premises; failing to ensure food contact surfaces of equipment was in a clean and sanitary condition; failing to maintain easily accessible hand washing facilities; failing to minimise the time food remained at temperatures that permit the growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms; and failing to store food in such a way that it was protected from the likelihood of contamination.

For all six of the offences, at least one previous warning had been given.

Costi's Catch Cherrybrook has been penalised by the NSW Food Authority. Picture: Google Maps.

Yummy King BBQ Kitchen at Campsie had the second greatest number of penalties, with five fines issued.

The eatery was found to have failed to display potentially hazardous food under temperature control; failed to store food in such a way that it is protected from the likelihood of contamination; failed to maintain easily accessible hand washing facilities; failed to enclose garbage or recyclable matter, if this is necessary to keep pests and animals away from it and failed to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness.

It was fined $880 for each of the five penalties and for three, previous warnings had been given.

Businesses issued with a penalty notice are listed on the name and shame list for 12 months.

NSW FOOD AUTHORITY NAME AND SHAME LIST JANUARY-MARCH 2021:

Tandoori Zone Mascot has been penalised by the NSW Food Authority. Picture: Google Maps.

MASCOT

Tandoori Zone

Penalty: Fail to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness. $880.

Penalty: Fail to maintain easily accessible hand washing facilities on the food premises. $880.

Penalty: Fail to display potentially hazardous food under temperature control. $880.

DOLLS POINT

Le Beach Hut

Penalty: Fail to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness. $440.

Penalty: Fail to maintain easily accessible hand washing facilities on the food premises. $440.

Penalty: Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests. $440.

Le Beach Hut Dolls Point has been penalised by the NSW Food Authority. Picture: Google Maps.

CHERRYBROOK

Costi’s Catch

Penalty: Fail to display potentially hazardous food under temperature control. $880.

CAMPBELLTOWN

Tasty Noodle Bar

Penalty: Fail to store potentially hazardous food under temperature control – previous warnings given. $440.

NARELLAN

Pizza Hut

Penalty: Fail to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness. $880.

Penalty: Fail to maintain premises, fixtures, fittings, and equipment in a good state of repair and working order having regard to their use. $880.

BURWOOD

Tian Jin Shi Tang

Penalty: Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests. $880.

Station Meats Hurtsville has been penalised by the NSW Food Authority. Picture: Google Maps.

HURSTVILLE

Station Meats

Penalty: Sale of food found to contain illegal preservative (sulphur dioxide) in pork mince. $1320.

CAMPSIE

Tong Li Supermarket

Penalty: Fail to not permit live animals in areas in which food is handled. $880.

Yummy King BBQ Kitchen

Penalty: Fail to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness. $880.

Penalty: Fail to enclose garbage or recyclable matter, if this is necessary to keep pests and animals away from it. $880.

Penalty: Fail to maintain easily accessible hand washing facilities on the food premises – previous warnings given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to store food in such a way that it is protected from the likelihood of contamination – previous warnings given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to display potentially hazardous food under temperature control – previous warnings given. $880.

Yummy King BBQ Kitchen Campsie has been penalised by the NSW Food Authority. Picture: Google Maps.

GRAFTON

Burrito Bar

Penalty: Fail to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness – previous warnings given. $440.

CHATSWOOD

Hong Kong Kitchen

Penalty: Fail to ensure single use items are not reused – previous warnings given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to have a temperature measuring device at the premises where potentially hazardous food is handled – previous warnings given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to ensure food contact surfaces of equipment is in a clean and sanitary condition – previous warning given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to maintain easily accessible hand washing facilities on the food premises – previous warning given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to, when processing food, minimise the time food remains at temperatures that permit the growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms – previous warning given. $880.

Penalty: Fail to store food in such a way that it is protected from the likelihood of contamination – previous warning given. $880.

Chang An Noodle

Penalty: Fail to ensure food contact surfaces of equipment is in a clean and sanitary condition. $880.