\n My Fruit, located in \u00a0West Street, has been served a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order by Reading Borough Council, effectively closing the business.\n<\/p>\n
\n The action was undertaken due to cockroaches and evidence of mice at the premises.\n<\/p>\n
\n A council spokesperson said: \u201cThe business was closed following a proactive inspection by the council\u2019s Food and Safety team on October 10.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDuring the inspection, officers identified live cockroach activity and evidence of a mouse infestation, which posed an imminent risk to public health.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs a result, a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice (HEPN) was issued to close the premises immediately.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cReading Magistrates Court has since granted a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order (HEPO), confirming the closure and awarding costs to the council.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n It comes after the council successfully obtained a HEPO to close the kitchen of the Shirdi Saibaba Temple in West Street on September 11.\n<\/p>\n
\n The temple shares the building with My Fruit.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, the two closures have been determined to be\u00a0separate.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The spokesperson explained: \u201cThe two closures at 44 West Street are entirely separate; however, the premises share a building, therefore, it is possible that there has been migration of cockroaches between the two premises.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The council can force a business to close using a HEPN.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n To confirm the closure, an HEPO must be obtained at a Magistrates’ Court hearing.\n<\/p>\n
\n After that, the business will remain closed until the council’s environmental health team is satisfied that the business no longer presents a health risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My Fruit, located in \u00a0West Street, has been served a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order by Reading Borough Council,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}