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Councillor Barry Coppinger said: "Emergency closure powers are rarely used but are necessary to deal with food business operators who fail to keep their premises clean and safe.

coli O157 outbreak, should guide hygiene measures in businesses processing raw and cooked meats and unwrapped ready-to-eat foods; 5 The Food Standards Agency (FSA) should review its current guidance and should be proactive in generating new guidance; 6 The FSA should remove the confusion among food business operators about what the solution should be to prevent cross-contamination from surfaces and equipment.

On Thursday, food business operator Mr Farooq Raheel, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Magistrates Court to three food hygiene offences at his business.

The NFU sees changes in the European regulations as a priority as this could reduce costs to food business operators by 70%.

Article 19 paragraph 1 provides that where a food business operator considers or has reason to believe (the applicable test to be an objective one) that a food which it has imported, produced, processed, manufactured or distributed: is not in compliance with the food safety requirements; and has left the immediate control of the initial business food operator, the competent authorities should be notified and immediate procedures should be initiated to withdraw84 the food from the market.

Strict EU legislation came into effect on January 1 requiring all food business operators across Europe to establish and maintain new food safety guidelines.

The guidance is intended to help food business operators (primarily manufacturers and retailers) to understand the requirements of the European Commission Regulation on Microbiological Criteria for Foodstuffs (which came into force on 1 January 2006) and provide additional detail to that given in the Food Standards Agency's own guidance documents.

In turn, food business operators would be required to submit recycling plans they have drawn up on the basis of the directives to the minister.