Restaurants lie about food hygiene – level 2
11-10-2024 07:00
An undercover BBC investigation showed that some food businesses in England and Wales are not telling the truth about their hygiene ratings.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) gives these ratings to show how clean and safe a place is and how it handles food. But some places were lying. They were showing better ratings than they had. For example, a Sainsbury’s supermarket said it had a score of five, but the truth was that it had a zero because of serious problems.
Experts said this is happening in many other places too. When journalists asked about it, some businesses denied it, and others didn’t say anything at all. Food experts say this problem is usual across the UK.
Difficult words: undercover (secret), rating (grade), deny (to say that something is false).
You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.
What discrepancy was found between the hygiene ratings displayed by some food businesses in England and Wales and their actual ratings given by the Food Standards Agency (FSA)?
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