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Restaurant at Changi Airport to close for two weeks after selling ‘unclean’ food

SINGAPORE — A restaurant at Changi Airport Terminal 2 will be closed for two weeks starting next Monday (Feb 13) after it was found to have sold unclean food.

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SINGAPORE — A restaurant at Changi Airport Terminal 2 will be closed for two weeks starting next Monday (Feb 13) after it was found to have sold unclean food.

In a suspension notice posted on its website on Friday (Feb 10), the National Environment Agency (NEA) said the restaurant — Chutney Mary Indian Fast Food at T2’s viewing mall — had accumulated 12 demerit points over the last 12 months for failing to register an assistant and for selling unclean food. 

The restaurant was also fined S$800 for both offences and will have its licence suspended from Feb 13 to Feb 26.

According to the NEA, any food licensee who accumulates 12 or more demerit points during a 12-month period may have his/her licence suspended for a period of either two or four weeks, or revoked. All food handlers working in the suspended premises would also be required to attend and pass the Basic Food Hygiene Course again, before they can resume work. 

The agency stated: “NEA takes a serious view of these offences and would like to remind food operators to observe good food and personal hygiene practices at all times, and to engage only registered food handlers. NEA will not hesitate to take firm action against anyone found to be in violation of the Environmental Public Health Act.”

Separately, four other food establishments also received suspension notices on Friday for failing to register shop assistants and failing to keep their premises free of cockroach infestations.

The food establishments censured were: Foodstall No 18 at the Kopitiam at Jurong Point Shopping Centre; foodstall No 2 at 536A Upper Serangoon Road; Ambeng Cafe By Ummi Abdullah in the Simpang Bedok area; and foodstall No 2 at Blk 866A Tampines Street 83, Tampines Central Community Complex.

All four received two weeks’ suspension and a fine of S$800 each.

“In the interest of maintaining a high standard of food hygiene at all eating establishments, we would also like to advise members of the public who come across poor hygiene practices in food establishments not to patronise such outlets but to call our 24-hour NEA Contact Centre at 1800 - CALL NEA (1800 - 2255632) with details for our follow-up investigations,” said the NEA.

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