{"id":166796,"date":"2025-12-03T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166796\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:07:13","slug":"woolworths-nz-pleads-guilty-over-dunedin-supermarket-rat-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166796\/","title":{"rendered":"Woolworths NZ pleads guilty over Dunedin supermarket rat infestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The charges were brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries after an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Counsel for MPI said the company faced a penalty of about $50,000-$55,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">At the time the charge was laid, New Zealand Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle said Woolworths had failed to ensure a significant rodent infestation was promptly identified and escalated in accordance with its food control plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Woolworths NZ is due to be sentenced in March next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charges were brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries after an investigation. Counsel for MPI said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6796,6788,3368,29509,111,43,139,69,1523,3367,4757,97,6795,92],"class_list":["post-166796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-brunton","tag-dunedin","tag-guilty","tag-infestation","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-pleads","tag-rat","tag-supermarket","tag-tess","tag-woolworths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}