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Leeds pizza takeaway owner prosecuted for food hygiene failings (24 July 2017)

Date: 24/07/2017
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Leeds pizza takeaway owner prosecuted for food hygiene failings

Leeds City Council’s environmental health team has prosecuted the owner of a pizza takeaway in the city for food hygiene breaches.

Ansar Ali is the owner of Sky Pizza Bar on the Dewsbury Road in Hunslet. An inspection by the council’s environmental health team found five contraventions of food safety, including failure to protect food from possible contamination, a lack of adequate hand washing facilities, failure to keep the premises and equipment clean – and failure to use written food safety procedures to ensure food is produced safely.

In pleading guilty to the charges at Leeds Magistrates’ Court, Ali was fined a total of £4,812.40, including a £3,000 fine, costs of £1,642.40 and a victim surcharge of £170.

Leeds City Council’s Executive Member for environment and sustainability, Councillor Lucinda Yeadon, said:

“It is absolutely vital that owners of restaurant, takeaways and all food premises in Leeds ensure that they are complying fully with food safety legislation.

“A failure to do so could potentially result in terrible consequences for the general public – which is why we will always take action against any owners that are not abiding by the appropriate food safety laws such as in this case.”


Leeds City Council regulates all food businesses in Leeds and environmental health officers regularly inspect restaurants, takeaways and shops to ensure they comply with strict food safety legislation.

The outcome of these inspections is a rating based on the Food Standard Agency’s national food hygiene rating scheme – ratings can be checked at http://ratings.food.gov.uk/.

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