Crystal Restaurant and EDA Food Centre fined

Published: 6th May, 2011

A RESTAURANT and a shop have been fined more than £5,000 between them for flouting food safety laws. Cebrail Imrek of the Crystal Restaurant in Holloway Road pleaded guilty to eight food hygiene offences at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, including failing to protect food from contamination and failure to refrigerate food properly, creating a “serious risk” of food poisoning. He was fined £1,600 and ordered to pay costs of £1,000.

Kalender Boyraz of EDA Food Centre in Hornsey Road pleaded guilty to 10 offences under the Food Safety Act for selling packets of cooked meat past their use-by dates. 

The company was fined a total of £2,000 and costs of £700.

* The EDA Food Centre in Hornsey Road is completely separate from the EDA Food Centre in Seven Sisters Road. The shop inn Seven Sisters Road has had no charges brought against it.