| Comment | Ok, "nothing to do with food" is the wrong way of putting my argument. You're right, it's in a food prep area, therefore it's about food. My point being, though, that the "writ" came as a result of choice of floor covering and not about food standards or food storage methods or anything to do with the actual hygiene of the food or food prep itself.
It was a new business having an initial inspection, btw. The lino was brand new. The whole kitchen was brand new. The council have (had?) a rule against non-porous floor coverings (lino not being fully non-porous). Simple as that.
> There is no legislation stating that type of flooring must not be used.
The licencing board don't need legislation to support them making a rule like this. They call them 'conditions of licence' and its essentially a form of contractual agreement. All licence types are subject to these sort of things.
There doesn't need to be a law on floor coverings for food prep areas. The council just need to make it a condition of licence that food prep areas need to have non-porous floor coverings and that's just that. |
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