Inspectors shut supermarket; Public health concerns include mouldy food, rodent droppings

October 9, 2004
The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo)
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Rodent droppings, cockroaches, flies -- dead and alive -- as well as spoiling, mouldy food were just some of the problems observed by public health inspectors before they, according to this story, closed the Hiu Lian supermarket in Kitchener, Ontario's Krug Street plaza on Sept. 10.

Department manager Chris Komorowski was cited as saying that a report on the matter from Waterloo Region's food safety and infection control department will be going before the region's community services committee later this month, and that the owner has been served with a court summons, even though the large store is now empty.

The story says that since October 2003, health inspectors have uncovered a number of infractions over the course of seven inspections, as listed on the region's food safety website.

The infractions included failing to protect against insects, vermin and rodents, allowing a food handler to smoke while handling food, failing to provide handwashing basins in preparation areas, failing to maintain sanitary conditions in staff and public washrooms, failing to provide sanitizing solution for wiping cloths and generally having unsatisfactory housekeeping.