Hot soup in plastic pails
'Such an unsafe way aired on national TV shows that ignorance prevails.'
MS CHENG MAY SAN: 'I refer to the government reply, 'Plastic pails should not be used to hold hot soup' (Sept 11), whereby the public was told to report food handlers using plastic pails to hold hot soup. Only recently, a local television programme on good food showed how a restaurant chef prepared his signature dish. He used a plastic pail to hold the hot soup. Such an unsafe way of handling food aired on national TV shows that ignorance prevails. I have seen this at Raffles Hotel, in one of its kitchens, an open island counter in the al-fresco dining zone. The chef poured hot food and soup into a plastic sieve. Could the National Environment Agency and the Agri-Food And Veterinary Authority state the measures in place to ensure food safety compliance in places the public cannot see, such as restaurant kitchens?'
'Such an unsafe way aired on national TV shows that ignorance prevails.'
MS CHENG MAY SAN: 'I refer to the government reply, 'Plastic pails should not be used to hold hot soup' (Sept 11), whereby the public was told to report food handlers using plastic pails to hold hot soup. Only recently, a local television programme on good food showed how a restaurant chef prepared his signature dish. He used a plastic pail to hold the hot soup. Such an unsafe way of handling food aired on national TV shows that ignorance prevails. I have seen this at Raffles Hotel, in one of its kitchens, an open island counter in the al-fresco dining zone. The chef poured hot food and soup into a plastic sieve. Could the National Environment Agency and the Agri-Food And Veterinary Authority state the measures in place to ensure food safety compliance in places the public cannot see, such as restaurant kitchens?'