{"id":67520,"date":"2016-02-11T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e6b06aa46036ffc6f5e720c7fe323893"},"modified":"2016-02-11T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T11:21:00","slug":"news-story-london-egg-packer-and-wholesaler-found-guilty-of-egg-marketing-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67520","title":{"rendered":"News story: London egg packer and wholesaler found guilty of egg marketing fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ziya Gorur pleaded not guilty before the District Judge at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court on Thursday 21 January, but was found guilty on all 4 charges after a 3 and a half hour trial. <\/p>\n<p>He was fined \u00a32,515 (\u00a3500 per offence plus \u00a3500 court costs and a \u00a315 surcharge) under the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2009\/2163\/contents\/made\">Eggs and Chicks (England) Regulations 2009<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In summing up, the District Judge praised the professional manner in which the Animal and Plant Health Agency\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Animal and Plant Health Agency\">APHA<\/abbr>) egg marketing inspectors carried out their enforcement roles.<\/p>\n<p>When Ziya Gorur was inspected by <abbr title=\"Animal and Plant Health Agency\">APHA<\/abbr>, inspectors found that eggs at 2 separate stalls at New Spitalfields Market, Leyton, had been falsely dated. Batches of eggs were found to be individually marked on the shell with a date of 25 April, despite the eggs having been re-packed with a label showing a best before date of either 8 or 10 May.  <\/p>\n<p>At around the same time, egg marketing inspectors issued 2 compliance notices to Mr Gorur regarding 2 batches of eggs that had been downgraded for failing to meet the class A quality standards. Despite clear instructions both verbally and in writing, Mr Gorur chose not to adhere to these requirements, breaching both compliance notices.  <\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Animal and Plant Health Agency\">APHA<\/abbr> Lead Inspector Tim Platt, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Consumers rely on honest egg marketing to ensure that the eggs they buy are fresh and safe to eat. This case should serve as a warning and reminder that <abbr title=\"Animal and Plant Health Agency\">APHA<\/abbr> enforces egg marketing legislation robustly and that deliberate transgressions result in tough sanctions for those not willing to comply.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London egg packer and wholesaler has been fined for extending \u2018best before\u2019 dates on eggs and breaching compliance notices issued by APHA egg marketing inspectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}