Shirley Knox - an apology (From Echo)

Shirley Knox - an apology

4:59pm Friday 7th August 2009 in

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We ran a story on 3rd September last year about serious breaches of hygiene rules uncovered by health inspectors at Canvey Island food outlets.

We said Dave’s Plaice, a fish and chip shop owned and run by Mrs Shirley Knox, had been slammed by health inspectors for a series of shocking breaches of food hygiene regulations in their latest report and had exposed the public to a significant health risk.

We said it was filthy, had a stash of dirty equipment and that staff had been caught not wearing the proper clean, protective clothing.

Although some minor infractions of the rules had been found in an inspection report carried out nine months before our article was published, in fact there had been no serious breaches.

The recommendations of the inspectors were also quickly implemented. A further report had been carried out six weeks before our article was published in which inspectors gave the shop a clean bill of health.

We apologise sincerely to Mrs Knox for the distress caused by our inaccurate and exaggerated report.