Fine for restaurant after garlic bread ingredient probe

A NORTHUMBERLAND restaurant has been hit with a fine for selling a meal containing traces of milk protein, even though the buyer specifically asked for a meal without.

- KALI LINDSAY

Amore Ristorante Ltd, on Hide Hill, Berwick, pleaded guilty to offences under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and under the Food Safety Act 1990.

The business, which is located inside The Kings Arms Hotel, was fined £4,000 which was reduced to £1,600 for mitigation and an early guilty plea and ordered to pay £2140.44 costs at South Tyneside Magistrates Court.

It follows a test purchase carried out by Northumberland Trading Standards in August last year, after it received a complaint from a family about milk in food provided to a child with a milk allergy.

The child had suffered an allergic reaction to food purchased from the restaurant despite their parents advising the child had a milk allergy.