= Jennifer =
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The owner of a Brisbane supermarket who sold chickens processed in a toilet has been fined for obtaining and selling the chickens illegally.
The Queensland Government's food standards monitor, Safe Food Queensland, said Tung Thanh Cao, owner of the Kim Loan Supermarket in suburban Inala, appeared in the Inala Magistrates Court charged with breaches of food safety regulations.
Safe Food Queensland enforcement manager John Stickens today said Cao pleaded guilty to the offences and was fined $1,400 and ordered to pay $64 in costs for selling the chickens without accreditation and getting some of them from an unaccredited source.
Mr Stickens said an investigation was triggered when chickens were found for sale in the supermarket in December 2003 that did not meet the standards for pre-packaged meat.
He said this led to investigations into a man processing chickens in the toilet of a residential house at Goodna, near Ipswich.
In November this year, a man and his wife were fined for killing chickens in their backyard and processing them in a dirty toilet.
Son Van Nguyen pleaded guilty in the Ipswich Magistrates Court to processing poultry without an accreditation for sale to supermarkets.
Nguyen was fined $1,500 and ordered to pay $63 in costs for breaching the Food Production Safety Act after he and his wife processed about 50 old hens in the bathroom, with the plucking machine right next to the toilet.
Nguyen's wife, Trang Thi Dien Luu, was fined $2,000 for killing chickens in the backyard of a house and processing them for human consumption in a bathtub.
AAP
The Queensland Government's food standards monitor, Safe Food Queensland, said Tung Thanh Cao, owner of the Kim Loan Supermarket in suburban Inala, appeared in the Inala Magistrates Court charged with breaches of food safety regulations.
Safe Food Queensland enforcement manager John Stickens today said Cao pleaded guilty to the offences and was fined $1,400 and ordered to pay $64 in costs for selling the chickens without accreditation and getting some of them from an unaccredited source.
Mr Stickens said an investigation was triggered when chickens were found for sale in the supermarket in December 2003 that did not meet the standards for pre-packaged meat.
He said this led to investigations into a man processing chickens in the toilet of a residential house at Goodna, near Ipswich.
In November this year, a man and his wife were fined for killing chickens in their backyard and processing them in a dirty toilet.
Son Van Nguyen pleaded guilty in the Ipswich Magistrates Court to processing poultry without an accreditation for sale to supermarkets.
Nguyen was fined $1,500 and ordered to pay $63 in costs for breaching the Food Production Safety Act after he and his wife processed about 50 old hens in the bathroom, with the plucking machine right next to the toilet.
Nguyen's wife, Trang Thi Dien Luu, was fined $2,000 for killing chickens in the backyard of a house and processing them for human consumption in a bathtub.
AAP
