Popular school blasted after hygiene inspectors find 'dirty' kitchen areas and rodent droppings
21.04.2022 - 19:07
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A school on the outskirts of Stockport has made a number of improvements itself after being blasted by hygiene inspectors who found evidence of rodents and suspected mice droppings on site.
Hygiene inspectors visiting the kitchen area in Knutsford Academy in Cheshire, which has 1200 students between the ages of 11 and 18, found chewed-through electrical wires inside the freezers and ‘dirty’ kitchen floors. Ivy was also found in the dry food store area.
The inspection by Cheshire East council also noted a ‘large number of items on the floor of the kitchen dry store’ that prevented staff from effectively checking for pests. The Academy said the kitchens are run by a third-party and not the school itself.
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Cheshire East Council’s Hygiene Inspector said, as reported by Cheshire Live, that contraventions observed during the audit included: “Rodent droppings, nibbled packaging and nibbled electrical wiring/insulation found in [the] freezer food store of the upper school, including on pizza food packaging.
The floor throughout the upper kitchen was dirty especially at floor/wall junctions and behind or below equipment. There were a large number of items on the floor in the upper kitchen dry store meaning staff were unable to effectively clean or check for pests.” The hygiene inspector added that there was a “dirty/dusty vent with ivy growing through in [the] dry store [of the] lower school.”
Nichola Phillips, a spokesperson for Knutsford Academy, said: "Our kitchens are run by an outside company, it's not actually the school that runs the kitchen. When Cheshire East came in, there was no food that was actually contaminated.
“We had a number of
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