{"id":68320,"date":"2016-03-08T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b4e572589a367aafd063486213438abb"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T11:59:11","slug":"news-story-yorkshire-fruit-and-veg-retailer-fined-after-failing-to-meet-fresh-produce-marketing-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68320","title":{"rendered":"News story: Yorkshire fruit and veg retailer fined after failing to meet fresh produce marketing standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Yorkshire based retailer has been fined for displaying, offering for sale and selling rotten fruit and vegetables that failed to meet minimum quality standards. <\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Atif Anwar, Manager of Asia Foods in Huddersfield appeared at Huddersfield Magistrates Court on 1 March 2016, following a six month long investigation by the Rural Payments Agency\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) Horticultural Marketing Inspectors (<abbr title=\"Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate\">HMI<\/abbr>). <\/p>\n<p>A final <abbr title=\"Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate\">HMI<\/abbr> inspection conducted on 3 August 2015, found five displays in breach of the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> marketing rules for fresh produce, including rotten melons and peaches.<\/p>\n<p>In court Mr Anwar pleaded guilty to the charges and was fined \u00a31,200 (\u00a3300 each for four quality offences, with a fifth labelling charge dropped), \u00a3600 costs and a \u00a330 victim surcharge. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Caldwell, <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> Operations Director said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Concerted efforts were made by <abbr title=\"Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate\">HMI<\/abbr> to work closely with the business through face-to-face meetings, verbal warnings and formal written notices, all aimed at achieving improved compliance from the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Unfortunately such advice is not always heeded and when all other options have been exhausted we will resort to the use of criminal sanction to bring about a required change in behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"background\">Background<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Asia Foods is based at 97 Yew Hill Road, Huddersfield, HD1 3SG. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Horticultural Marketing Inspectors are part of the Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>). The inspectors are responsible for the enforcement of the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> marketing standards for fresh fruit, vegetables, salad crops, nuts and cultivated mushroom, throughout England and Wales, wherever fresh produce is grown, imported, exported, bought or sold.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh produce retailer fined following HMI investigation<\/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\/68320"}],"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=68320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}