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A restaurant in Berwick Upon Tweed has been hit with a fine for selling a meal containing traces milk protein, even though the buyer specifically asked for a meal without.

Amore Ristorante Ltd, located on Hide Hill, Berwick Upon Tweed, pleaded guilty to offences under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 and under the Food Safety Act 1990.

The business was fined £4,000 which was reduced to £1600 for mitigation and an early guilty plea and ordered to pay £2140.44 costs at South Tyneside Magistrates Court.

It follows a test purchase carried out by Northumberland Trading Standards in August last year, after a complaint about milk in food provided to a child with a milk allergy, was received by a family visiting the county.

The child had suffered an allergic reaction to food purchased from the restaurant despite their parents advising the child had a milk allergy.

A Trading Standards officer visited Amore Ristorante Ltd and ordered Garlic bread stating clearly she had an allergy and asked for the meal to be made without milk.

Once the meal was handed over and paid for, the officer advised that the meal would be sampled. It was determined while the officer was still in the premises that butter had been used in the preparation of the Garlic bread.

The meal was sent to the Public Analyst who found it contained milk rendering the food unsafe and considered injurious to the health of a person with an allergy to milk, and that it was not what the consumer had requested.

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