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  1. Published on: 23/08/2019 06:52 AMReported by: roving-eye

    Bowland Foods Limited receives increased fine of £62,000 after being convicted of public health failures in May



    A meat cutting plant in Preston has been criticised by a judge and had their fine for public health failures increased following their appeal against their sentence.



    Bowland Foods received a fine of £35,400 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £9,384 in May after failing to ensure the removal of specific animal parts which breached regulations.


    The business accepted they were guilty of the offences before the trial but subsequently appealed the size of the fine received.


    At a hearing at Preston Crown Court on 15 August, the appeal was dismissed and the sentence increased significantly after the level of seriousness was considered to have been set too low.


    At the first hearing at Preston Magistrates’ Court, Bowland Foods initially pleaded not guilty and argued that the FSA’s prosecution was an abuse of process.


    However, at the appeal, the judge said this was ‘an unbridled attack on every aspect of the FSA investigation and preparation of the case for trial’.


    The fine increased from £35,400 to £60,000 with the full additional costs of £2,319.27 awarded to the FSA, to be added to the costs awarded in the lower court.
    As part of the increased fine, the judge reduced the credit they had received for their early guilty plea as a result of the abuse of process arguments that were made.


    Martin Evans, Head of Field Operations at the FSA said:


    ‘This significantly increased fine further underlines just how seriously breaches of public health regulations are taken by ourselves and the courts.


    ‘It is vitally important for consumers and the wider industry that regulations such these are followed and that public health is protected.’

    Specific animal parts must be removed before they enter the food chain to reduce risk from brain diseases that cattle, sheep and goats are vulnerable to, including BSE in cattle (referred to as ‘mad cow disease’), which has been linked to human diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
     

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  3. donkey22 says:23/08/2019 01:48 PM
    Hmmm and another great reason to go vegetarian. But do we really need a graphic full colour photograph of freshly slaughtered cows to illustrate this article?


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