NSW Food Authority • Name & Shame website • Media Exposure • Links • May 2012
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Local Councils regularly conduct food safety inspections of restaurants and other food handling businesses to ensure compliance with Food Act NSW Regulations.
Restaurants found to have unsafe or unhygienic food handling practices or premises can be fined and listed on the NSW Food Authority name and shame website - click here for more details.
The most common type of non-compliance with Food Safety Regulations and easy to prove in Court is the evidence of cockroach and rodent infestations - feaces - dead caracasses - smear marks - inadequate pest control documentation

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29 November 2010 - Domino Pizza Quakers Hill fined $130,000 - breaches of Food Safety Act - cleanliness - cockroach infestations - NSW Food Authority's Name & Shame register - lists 990 food businesses - 1828 penalty notices issued
15 November 2010 - Daily Telegraph - Restaurant owners in NSW plan a revolt against a compulsory Scores On Doors food safety rating system - Restaurant & Catering Association lobbies its 7500 members to boycott the pilot scheme
15 November 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Release - Scores on Doors food safety rating system - a 6 month trial commenced 1 July 2010 with 20 councils in NSW volunteering to take part - uses a standardised inspection checklist
15 November 2010 - Hospitality Magazine - 48 inner-city cafes restaurants trial new Scores on Doors food safety rating system - A excellent - B good - C acceptable or P pending - full implementation to commence in NSW in July 2011
10 November 2010 - University of Sydney Union - Scores on Doors - Cafe Tra Baci in Manning House - Courtyard Cafe Holme Building - Smart Eats in Wentworth Building all get a top A food safety rating - Paul McJannett CEO USU
5 July 2010 - Hospitality Magazine - Scores on Doors trial starts - 20 local councils take part - including City of Sydney Council - Holroyd - Warringah - Kogarah - Blacktown - Ashfield - Randwick - Parramatta - Newcastle - Upper Hunter
31 October 2010 - Channel 7 TV News - covers NSW Food Authority June 2010 Annual Report - details on inspections carried out - remedial actions - prosecutions - offences under the NSW Food Safety Act - name and shame website
31 October 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media release - June 2010 Annual Report - 4517 food complaints received - 2049 penalty notices issues to businesses in food retail and service sector in 152 local council areas in NSW
22 October 2010 - National Food Regulation Standing Committee issues discussion paper re national review of food regulation policy - various options are discussed - NFRSC is seeking comments from interested parties
1 October 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Release - the 12 month implementation period for food businesses to appoint a Food Safety Supervisor - trained to ensure safe food handling practices begins 1st October 2010
25 September 2010 - David Jones Sushi Bar Market St fined $660 - Koh Ya Yakiniku Japanese Restaurant Neutral Bay fined $660 - Everest Tandoori Kogarah fined $660 - Balmain Trattoria Pizzeria fined $5,940 - Money Bags Thai Restaurant Baulkham Hills fined $2,640
30 August 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Realease - Castle Taj Indian Restaurant Castle Hill fined $7,500 plus costs for 6 breaches of NSW Food Act - unsafe storage of food - unclean premises - improper hand washing facilities
17 August 2010 - CBD Hunter St restaurants - Pho Ha Noi Vietnamese Noodle Shop fined $8,050 - Hong Hai Noodle Bar fined $7,250 - Top One Kitchen fined $3,800 & Khwan Thai fined $1,700 for breaches of NSW Food Act
15 August 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Release - Sydney CBD eateries fined - failure to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests with live cockroaches, rodent droppings, smears and hairs throughout the premises.
30 July 2010 - AustFoodNews - more than 2,000 food premises issued more than 3,500 penalties and 63 prosecutions since Name & Shame scheme began - main offences relate to cleanliness - inadequate pest control - cockroach faeces
30 June 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Release - the 6 month trial of Scores on Doors food safety rating system begins 1 July 2010 with 20 NSW Councils taking part - A is excellent - B is good - C is acceptable and P is pending
8 June 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Release - Industrial Magistrates Court has fined a cockroach infested restaurant $30,000 plus costs - cockroaches and cockroach faeces were found within food containers
8 June 2010 - Tum Tum Thai Restaurant Darlinghurst fined $32,500 for 24 breaches of NSW Food Act - evidence found of cockroaches and cockroach faeces in food containers - added to the NSW Food Authority name and shame website
11 May 2010 - Daily Telegraph - Sydney eateries get scores on doors after name and shame file
4 May 2010 - Sydney Morning Herald - Luxe Bakery Newtown fined $660 for stocking banned soy milk
30 April 2010 - Newcastle Herald - L'il Buddha at Nelson Bay Diggers fined $660 - Oaks Restaurant in Greta Workers Bowling Club $660 - Ming's Tea Coffee & Cake at Boolaroo fined $330 added to NSW Authority name and shame website
19 April 2010 - Hospitality Magazine - NSW Govt prepares to launch "Scores on Doors" food safety rating system for restaurants and cafes - trial system to get underway soon - all restaurants to comply by July 2011
28 April 2010 - Manning River Times - Delicious Noodle of Manning St Taree - fined for serving up cockroach - Bankstown Bakehouse sold a loaf of bread with a cockroach embedded in one slice
28 April 2010 - Daily Advertiser - butcher queries name and shame list
28 April 2010 - Northern Daily Leader - food handling businesses hit with food safety violations
24 April 2010 - NSW Food Authority - Media Release - Delicious Noodle Taree fined $2,420 - sale of food containing a cockroach - live and dead cockroaches in kitchen - failure to take measures to eradicate cockroach infestation
24 April 2010 - Daily Telegraph - Child Care Centres added to NSW Food Authority name-and-shame list - Tweed Family Day Care - Rockdale Kindergarten - Vivian's Early Learning Centre Fairfield - fined a total of more than $43,000
15 April 2010 - Newcastle Herald - Restaurants fined for cockroach infestations
15 April 2010 - Newcastle Herald - reports on restaurants fined for cockroach infestations - Food Authoority name and shame register - exposure can seriously damage a restaurant food business
4 April 2010 - OptusZoo reports on a new rating system for restaurant known as ''scores on doors'' A, B or C ratings will give consumers a new level of clarity when choosing to eat at any of the state's 20,000 registered food outlets
17 February 2010 - Food Processing website - preventing and controlling food safety hazards - newly published document in the ISO 22000 series designed to prevent and control food safety hazards
20 December 2009 - Sunday Telegraph - restaurants fined for rat infested kitchens - cockroach droppings served with meals - consumers made 4199 complaints re food businesses in the past 12 months
13 October 2009 - Central Western Daily - a second bakery named and shamed
16 September 2009 - Australian Food News - dead cockroach in flour - other additions to name and shame site - 32 food outlets fined for 45 offences appear on name and shame list - a total to 758 premises
13 August 2009 - Sydney Morning Herald - reports on an iPhone application viz FoodWatch NSW which provides a map to zoom in on local restaurants fined by NSW Food Authority for food safety violations
13 July 2009 - Australian Food News - article on new food safety data - around two in every five NSW food retailers routinely inspected by Councils in last 6 months of last year failed to comply with all critical food handling practices
11 June 2009 - Australian Food News - a restaurant in The Rocks which has been fined $660 after a dead cockroach was found in flour - joins the Food Authority website name and shame list of 1,074 offences in 647 food outlets
30 June 2009 - NSW Auditor General 2009 Financial Year Report - 1,180 fines issued 671 food businesses listed on Food Authority name and shame website
7 June 2009 - SMH Sydney Morning Herald - Blacklisted eateries cry foul
29 May 2009 - Newcastle Hearld - Dirty Hunter food outlets fined
29 May 2009 - John Kaye NSW Greens MP - weak name-and-shame laws prolong NSW food poisoning scandal - each year almost 6,000 hospitalisations in NSW are caused by food-related illnesses
28 May 2009 - News.com.au - more than 700 food fines in six months
28 May 2009 - Australian Food News - reports that 10% of NSW food businesses fail food safety test
27 May 2009 - Australian Food News - outlets face safety crackdown
20 May 2009 - St George Sutherland Leader newspaper - Ocean King House Restaurant Kogarah fined $990 for pest infestation of premises
19 May 2009 - Wentworth Courier - rats and cockroaches found in "name and shame" restaurants
19 May 2009 - Daily Telegraph re Manly Restaurant Scene - Garfish Restaurant - Cafe Steyne - Manly Wharf Hotel - Steyne Hotel - Shore Club
23 April 2009 - Heavy fines for food safety breaches a "strong warning" to restaurants
19 April 2009 - Sunday Telegraph - more than 840 fines issued to 490 food premises since start of Food Authority name and shame register - including Bills at Darlinghurst, Lavender Blue Cafe at McMahons Point and Manly Pier Restaurant
31 March 2009 - NSW Labor website - comments by Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald on the effectiveness of NSW Food Authority name and shame online exposure of restaurants that breach food regulations
31 March 2009 - Blue Mountains Journal - Blaxland Bakery The Crusty Loaf was fined $550 for selling a loaf of bread that contained a cigarette butt in December 2008
31 March 2009 - Australian Food News - NSW Food Authority name and shame website gets an upgrade as cigarette found in bread loaf
11 December 2008 - Manly Daily - 8 local northern beaches businesses - added to NSW Food Authority name and shame" website
10 December 2008 - Australian Food News - Pizza chain joins name and shame list after serving band-aid with meal
21 November 2008 - NSW Govt Press Release - Name and shame website tops one million hits
12 November 2008 - Australian Food News - Name and Shame list getting a 15 name "boost" each week
3 November 2008 - CFT Food Safety Training - public name and shame list launched
21 October 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Pizza Hut George St in Sydney CBD fined $650 for cockroach infestation in kitchen - food inspectors filmed cockroaches as evidence
2 September 2008 - Australian Food News - "Name and Shame" register clocks up a century
13 August 2008 - Blue Mountains Gazette - name and shame register under fire
30 July 2008 - Australian Food News - Bakers getting the message on food safety
29 July 2008 - Penrith City Star - Penrith Council 13 fines to 7 seven food outlets - listed on NSW Food Authority name shame
24 July 2008 - Australian Food News - Consumers begin to embrace name and shame website
2 July 2008 - Australian Food News - Naming and shaming begins with "Dirty Dozen" in just 24 hrs
2 July 2008 - ABC TV reports on dodgy food outlets named and shamed
2 July 2008 - Daily Telegraph - restaurants named and shamed by NSW Food Authority for breaches of food safety regulations
2 July 2008 - Daily Telegraph - 12 restaurants named by NSW Food Authority for unclean unhygiene food handling premises - Thip Thong Thai Restaurant Penrith - Law Kee Chinese Restaurant Penrith
10 June 2008 - Australian Food News - name and shame laws just weeks away
10 May 2008 - Today Tonight TV program - Helen Wellings reports on recent food safety testing of kebabs - alarming results - high levels detected of salmonella and ecoli present in most of the 25 kebab shops tested
31 July 2007 - Hospitality magazine - public name and shame list launches
23 June 2007 - SMH Sydney Morning Herald - name and shame food plan only small step
10 February 2007 - Courier Mail - Pho 54 - Tan Hong Phat BBQ - Dai Nguyen Seafood - Napoli in Bocca Restaurant - Danas - La Patisserie - Petersham Charcoal Chicken - The Gourmet Viking Scandinavian Restaurant
WikiPedia - NSW Food Authority - "Name & Shame" website - media exposure of food outlets restaurants with inadequate hygiene and food safety practices - inadequate pest control for cockroaches rats and mice
WikiPedia - Scores on Doors - Food Safety Rating System - Restaurants - Cafes - Publication of food inspection information - cites similar schemes in USA, Canada & Denmark - successful in improving food safety standards
UK Food Standards Agency website - 16 November 2010 - A UK Steering Group, with local authority, industry and consumer representation, established to oversee development of a 6 tier Scores on Doors food safety rating system

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