Archives for September 2015
Birmingham Restaurant Closed Due to Cockroaches
Another restaurant with no pest control and extremely poor hygiene is closed by the council in Birmingham. The article is from yesterdays Birmingham Mail. Read the story…
A Birmingham Chinese restaurant which was found to be ‘an imminent risk to public health’ after inspectors found it was infested with cockroaches.
The Village Café in Ladywell Walk, city centre, was instantly closed down by officers concerned at the proble
At Birmingham Magistrates court SMT Village Café Ltd was ordered to pay a total of almost £2,000.
Environmental health officers visited the Chinese takeaway restaurant on 21 July 21 last year, and, shocked at their findings, immediately got a a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice on the same day – forcing the owners to shut down.
The court heard that the owners stated it employed a pest control company to treat and control pests at the premises, but environmental health team said they found no evidence of this during their visit.
When officers returned to The Village Café two days later, they decided there was still an imminent risk to public health as cockroaches both adult and young were found in the kitchen.
Mark Croxford, Head of Environmental Health for Birmingham City Council, said: “People should be able to have confidence in the safety of the food served and cleanliness of any food business in Birmingham – regardless of whether it’s a takeaway or a posh restaurant.
“When officers found evidence of an active cockroach infestation throughout the kitchen at The Village Café on 21 July 2014, they closed it immediately on public health grounds.
“We want the city’s food businesses to thrive and as such our officers work closely with premises to ensure they achieve the necessary standards required to operate safely.”
SMT Village Café Ltd pleaded guilty of two offences under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and was ordered to pay £1,000 in fines, £876 towards costs and a £100 victim surcharge.
Following the formal closure, the company signed a contract with a pest control firm to carry out treatment to control and eradicate cockroaches.
Officers allowed SMT Village Café Ltd to reopen its food business on July 24 after a second revisit, when they found the premises to be free of pests.
The food business was last inspected in March this year, when it regained its Food Standards Agency rating of 3, which means it is generally satisfactory.
Rat Pulled Out of Roof
Rats are fairly large animals to have roaming around your house in the night time. This rat photoed above was nesting in the roof space of a house and then coming out in the nighttime down the external wall and through a hole around a waste pipe to feed in a domestic kitchen.
The poor homeowners thought that they had an intruder in the house due to the noise it made as it fed. Once they had realised it was vermin we were called out to investigate.
We blocked the hole around the waste pipe and baited the roof. It soon took the poisonous bait and on a follow up visit to the house we were able to remove the rat.
Rat control can be fairly simple if you know what to look for. If you need help removing rats from your house please phone us.
For more information on rat control in Liverpool click here.
0800 206 1905
Average Size Nest for this time of Year
People often ask if their wasp nest is large compared to others. There are many things that affect nest size.
The most important thing is food availability. With low numbers of prey animals in an area wasps will not do as well as another nest that has an abundance of insect prey.
The nests location also affects how well the wasps will do. A nest in a tree or conifer often will not be as big as a nest in a roof space. The nest in the roof has the advantage of warmth from the house and its insulation.
The nest shown above was a nest that was treated in Northwich yesterday. It is a fairly average nest that would be found in a roof space at this time of year. Some can however be much bigger or much smaller.
For more information on wasps and how we treat them click here.
Pest Control Liverpool – MerseyPest
0800 206 1905 /0151 230 2707
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Next Page »
