TWO eateries on Jalan Sungai Pinang in Penang are still not up to mark, more than four months after they failed inspections by the Penang Municipal Council (MPPP).
The council has now issued six summonses to one of the outlets and three to the other.
The offences included having dirty premises and contaminated food, placing raw material on the floor, disposing of leftover food in the drain and failing to get typhoid injection for workers.
MPPP Public Health Standing Committee alternate chairman Ong Ah Teong said the council issued both eateries with a total of 14 summonses in the last inspections on Dec 24 for various offences, including having cockroaches in the premises.
Health concerns: Ong checking the cleanliness of a container at a Chinese food outlet at Sungai PinangHe, however, said both eateries had improved in their overall grading since then but were still below the optimum Grade A of 80 to 100 points.
He said one of the eateries only recorded a slight improvement from 41 points to 52 points while the other, which was closed for three days by the Health Ministry last month, jumped from 40.6 points to 75.5 points.
Ong said that both eateries were entitled to a 50% discount for the summonses if they settled the fines within two weeks, except for the dumping of leftover food in drains which carries a RM250 fine.
The other offences carry fines of RM20 to RM100.
He said the council had also written to the Health Ministry to request it to check four dirty eateries in Bayan Lepas and three in Air Itam.
“I urge all food outlet owners to improve and maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of their outlets.
“It is important to provide customers with clean food and good service. Don’t tarnish the name of your own outlet,” he said yesterday.
~News courtesy of The Star~
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