A campaign by Sharon Mills for the improvement of food safety standards is a welcome step towards improving the condition of food safety resources. Having lost her five-year-old son, Mason Jones, in the E.Coli outbreak in Wales, she is trying to create awareness among the authorities and businesses about food safety management. Mills’ campaign should also be an eye opener for all the Bridgend-based health officers who gave a clean chit to the tainted butcher, William Tudor, based on his false records and dishonest statements.
Tudor has already been found guilty and sentenced for a year for supplying unhygienic food. However, there were glaring errors on part of the health officials too who had failed to place restrictions on his business despite clues about his disregard for food safety.
The head of the investigation team looking into the Wales outbreak, Professor Pennington, was quiet direct in stating that safety management should be the first priority of all the food producers and that a ban should be placed by the Meat Hygiene Service on all butchers who have a past of supplying unsafe food for consumption.
Professor Pennington also suggested that a thorough review of the policies and procedures used by local authorities to deal with such issues should be carried out, and officers should maintain proper logs of all reported issues. He also recommended that all health officers should undergo a rigorous training and should carry out unannounced inspections to catch the guilty red-handed.
Employers need to keep themselves up to date with health and safety developments to avoid potential legal action from employers by taking a health and safety courses such as the nebosh general certificate from Workplace Law Training.
The recommendations of the investigation team are expected to aid in the achievement of better standards in food safety management, if given full support from the authorities.
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