{"id":305546,"date":"2025-11-25T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:40:12","slug":"rodent-issue-on-the-rise-2-fredericton-restaurants-shut-down-after-health-inspections-new-brunswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305546\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodent issue on the rise: 2 Fredericton restaurants shut down after health inspections &#8211; New Brunswick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular pub in downtown Fredericton was ordered to temporarily close after a concerning health inspection that noted rodent droppings on the premises.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808739_201_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But experts say rodents aren\u2019t an isolated problem, especially at this time of year. Ongoing construction in the downtown area is adding to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen there\u2019s construction, the rodents get disrupted, they find a new place to hide and to take shelter,\u201d said Germain Landry, a food safety consultant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time of the year, October, November, just like us, they want to get inside and that\u2019s what their main focus is. So any opening around doors or anything like that, little cracks, crevices on buildings they will try to get in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lunar Rogue Pub on King Street was given a red rating from the provincial food inspector last week after a report that highlighted several concerns, including improper thawing methods as well as rodent droppings found in the preparation area, on food carts and on the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In an emailed statement, the pub\u2019s general manager, Nathan Colford, said they are \u201cdevastated by the results of the report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808740_130_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been in business for almost four decades and we have a duty to keep the public safe and be in business for our 40-plus employees,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe failed to meet our standards, and that is being corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colford said the public was rightly concerned, and the business intends to rebuild trust.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the hours following the report, we immediately brought in our contractor and several experts and cleaners to re-evaluate the needs of our facility and, not only address the report, but assess the future state of The Rogue and the upgrades required for a near 70-year-old downtown building,\u201d he said in his email<\/p>\n<p>Colford added they have done a deep clean and made repairs, and have submitted documents to the Department of Justice and Public Safety to see when the business will be deemed ready for re-opening.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/the-curator\/11540273\/best-black-friday-cyber-monday-deals-canada-2025\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764060012_155_Frame-321.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBlack Friday Canada: Your ultimate guide to must-shop deals\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11540944\/polar-vortex-early-winter-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764060012_267_Canada-snowstorm.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPolar vortex set to bring \u2018harsh early start to winter\u2019 across Canada\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sincere hope is that it\u2019s as soon as possible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFrom there, we are in service of building back trust and confidence with our patrons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just around the corner from the pub, the Tandoori Adda restaurant also had its licence revoked temporarily last week, in part because an inspector found rodent droppings in the kitchen and on equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the restaurant said they have a clean kitchen, but declined to answer further questions.<\/p>\n<p>Landry said in his experience as a food safety consultant, rodent issues in the food industry is definitely not rare. In fact, he\u2019s noticed a rise in the problem in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypically, I probably review hundreds of reports from pest control companies at various places throughout the Maritimes,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the last few couple of years, probably there\u2019s been an increase in the rodent situation, especially around the food processing companies and most likely in restaurants as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landry also advised businesses to be diligent about checking for openings where pests can enter their building and in addressing all concerns raised in food inspection reports.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular pub in downtown Fredericton was ordered to temporarily close after a concerning health inspection that noted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,34549,136973,136974],"class_list":["post-305546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-food-safety","tag-health-inspections","tag-lunar-rogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}