Top seafood supplier must destroy 200 tons of fish

Trading standards investigators found scallops, tiger prawns and exotic parrot fish crawling with maggots and partly eaten by rats at Allan Rich Seafoods' depot in Lincoln, according to the Telegraph. The company supplies products to some of London's top restaurants. The food destruction order granted at Lincoln Magistrates' Court is biggest of its kind ever imposed in England.Now a major search has been launched by trading standards officials to track down and recall all remaining products supplied by the company.Joanna Riddell, community health manager at West Lindsey District Council, told the newspaper that the company had compromised the health of hundreds of people.She said: "The hideous lack of hygiene was revolting and the scale was astonishing - we had to destroy a massive warehouse worth of food, packed floor to ceiling.Mrs Riddell said the company policy was to buy in end-of-sale products from larger wholesalers then repackage them or break them into smaller chunks.Magistrates granted the destruction order last week and ordered the company to pay around £23,000 of incineration costs.