More on KFC - It's worse than I thought.

Still following  the KFC story here. I found this article back when the trial was in progress. It is truly revolting reading:

 The 16-year-old in charge of cooking at the Villawood outlet had described part of his duties as removing "feathers, foreign objects and blood bits" from the raw chickens, Mr Bartley said.

"Your honour will hear that, if the store was particularly busy, then even if chicken dropped on the floor near the burger station, then it was on some occasions simply put back into the burger station from where it had fallen," he said.

That evidence would come from those working at the time at other KFC stores and at Villawood, which was not a franchise but "their own internal operation", he said.

"In relation to the performance of this particular store, in August 2005, your honour will hear a group of 10 or more people who bought KFC from the Villawood store fell ill with vomiting and diarrhoea."

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A 16 year old "in charge of cooking"? WTF? For an entire restaurant? Is KFC fuckin insane? And this:

The manager in charge of the Villawood KFC in 2005 told the court that getting staff to follow food safety procedures was a problem.

Some staff members also testified that they used to throw food around as a joke, saw chicken fall to the floor and people handling food without gloves on.

"The evidence was consistent that the standards set by KFC were not met during the latter half of 2005," Judge Rothman said.

"The contamination has occurred because of the failure of one or more employees of KFC to adhere to that procedure."

An assessment of the restaurant conducted at the time Monika ate the Twister found it was operating at "breakdown" level and scored just 51 out of a possible 100 points for criteria including cleanliness, the court heard.

Cleaning checklists were apparently not being used by staff and many were not following hand-washing procedures.

Judge Rothman said some staff might not have been fully aware of the potential consequences of not following the strict procedures around food safety.

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Also found the NSW "Name and Shame" website. A site dedicated to making public information about restaurants in NSW that breach food and safety health regulations. The info is left on the site for 12 months. Not surprisingly then there are 4 penalty notices listed for KFC, the breaches being:

Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests - live cockroaches observed

Fail to store potentially hazardous food under temperature control - mashed potato at 45C, previous warning given

Handle food in manner likely to render it unsuitable - mashed potato and gravy stored at 38C

Fail to maintain the food premises to the required standard of cleanliness - unclean floors, refrigeration seals, chip cabinet, slushy machine, freezer, coolroom, garbage room

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And to top it all off, a local one very nearby me I found was fined in 2009, too far back to be on the Name and Shame site:

KFC, Belmore Road, Randwick received three fines of $660 each for being unclean and having cockroaches on its premises.

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KFC has said it will appeal the decision to pay the family poisoned by them the $8million, so all this isn't over yet. It's good to see that the news has gone around the world though. Perhaps people will start seeing through the lies of the corporate advertising and see the food for exactly what it is. Deep fried unhealthy crap thrown together (literally) by young teenagers who don't have a clue about the strict standards required to keep food safe for human consumption.