The National Environment Agency (NEA) has suspended the licence of a restaurant at 11 Upper East Coast Road under the Points Demerit System. The period of suspension is two weeks from 14/02/2011 to 27/02/2011.

The name of the suspended restaurant is “Killiney Kopitiam”. The licensee has accumulated 12 demerit points over the last 12 months and and fined a total of $800 for the following offences:

Depending on his past record, a licensee who accumulates 12 or more demerit points during a 12-month period may have his licence suspended for a period of either two or four weeks, or completely revoked. All food handlers working in the implicated premises would also be required to re-attend and pass the Basic Food Hygiene Course before they are able to resume work as food handlers.

NEA takes a serious view of these offences and would like to remind food operators to observe good food and personal hygiene practices at all times, and to engage only registered food handlers. NEA will not hesitate to take firm action against anyone found to be in violation of the Environmental Public Health Act.

In the interest of maintaining a high standard of food hygiene at all eating establishments, we would also like to advise members of the public who come across poor hygiene practices in food establishments not to patronise such outlets but to call our 24-hour NEA Call Centre at 1800 - CALL NEA (1800 - 2255632) with details for our follow-up investigations.