Hundreds of restaurants operating with invalid food grades
As many as 800 Auckland eateries will operate with an expired food grade from today - and another 121 are still waiting for checks more than six weeks after opening. Auckland Council has moved to reassure consumers about the situation it calls "unprecedented". They say restaurants are caught in a verification backlog created by the introduction of the Food Act 2014. A look at the Auckland Council's online listings for food businesses in Ponsonby - one of the city's premiere dining districts - revealed a little less than one-third would be operating under an expired or "grade pending" status today. High-profile restaurants and bars including Bedford Soda & Liquor, Revelry, Longroom and Saan are among those apparently caught in the verification backlog. There are 10,000 registered food premises across Auckland, including 619 that are new since June last year.
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Amazingly quiet night in Green Bay
All the Best for the New Year! The last few years they started banging days earlier already, but this year it was amazingly quiet. Now either people suddenly got smart and care about animals and the environment (which I don’t believe for a second) or it’s the clearest sign of the Cost of Living Crisis we are in. I’m just glad I can make a damn fine bread for under a dollar.
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