A sink for staff to wash their hands was filled with rubbish at Penarth Bakery Ltd, which has been fined £10,000
The boss of a bakery where rodents were found inside and food was deemed unfit for human consumption has been banned from managing a food business for 10 years.
Gareth Spray, the food business operator at Penarth Bakery Ltd, appeared before Cardiff Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to 28 food hygiene offences and a further eight offences of failing to comply with hygiene improvement notices.
He also pleaded guilty to two offences for placing food on the market which was unfit for human consumption.
The same offences were admitted by the company, Penarth Bakery Limited, with an additional offence of failing to display the sticker illustrating their zero food hygiene rating.
Spray, who was banned from managing a food business for 10 years, was also given a suspended jail term totalling four months.
The court heard how inspectors found serious breaches of hygiene regulations, including the presence of rodents, when they visited Modern Bakery, trading as Penarth Bakery Limited, in Plassey Street in Penarth .
Vale of Glamorgan council said a number of visits were made to the business which was acting as a food manufacturer supplying other outlets as well as its own retail shop.
A total of 11 improvement notices were served on the company.
The breaches identified at the premises included a failure to protect food from contamination, premises that were in a poor condition, storing high-risk food out of temperature control, a failure to ensure that adequate procedures were in place to control pests, and placing unfit food on the market as well as a failure to implement and maintain written food safety procedures at the business and a failure to comply with eight hygiene improvement notices.
Spray was sentenced to four months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, for the two more serious offences of placing food on the market which was unfit for human consumption.
He was ordered to undergo an unpaid work requirement of 200 hours and a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 15 days.
For the other 36 offences, he was fined £200, making a total of £7,200.
He was also ordered to pay costs of £1,400 and a victim surcharge of £115.
Spray was also banned from taking part in the management of any food business for 10 years.
A judge said said Spray’s offences showed “an appalling catalogue of behaviour and failure to act over a considerable length of time”.
The defendant “ignored advice, warnings, and repeated actions served on half-hearted attempts to comply which were grossly insufficient”, he added.
In addition Penarth Bakery Limited was fined £1,300 for each of the two more serious offences and £200 for each of the remaining offences – making a total fine of £10,000.
The company was also ordered to pay costs of £1,400 and a victim surcharge of £200.
District Judge Bodfan Jenkins described Spray and his company as having a “flagrant disregard for the law” and said there had been an “appalling catalogue of behaviour by all involved as to the state of the premises and equipment, enough to turn one’s stomach”.
He described the efforts that had been made to rectify problems as being “too little, too late.”
Councillor Gwyn John, from Vale of Glamorgan council, said: “Fortunately, cases such as this are rare across the region and most food businesses work hard to ensure that the highest possible standards of food hygiene are maintained.
“Nevertheless the outcome of this court case sends a clear message that firm action will be taken wherever necessary to safeguard the public.”
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