As part of our commitment to public safety, a local Barnsley shopkeeper has been prosecuted for food safety offences, being ordered to pay over £2,000 in fines and costs.

Headi Ibrahim, who used to trade from Hoyland Mini Market on King Street, appeared in Barnsley Magistrates Court last week for charges dating back to December 2023.

Mr. Ibrahim pleaded guilty to three offences under the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013, covering:

• Failure to comply with a food standards improvement notice, requiring the proper labelling of food products for sale, including mandatory food information, in English.
• A failure to notify the competent authority that they were intending to register themselves as a food business operator.
• Exposing for sale unsafe food products which breached regulations. These products were not labelled in English or include information about allergenic ingredients.

They were ordered to pay £2,276 for these offences.

Thanks to the hard work of our Legal Services and Trading Standards teams, this prosecution shows we will take action to make sure food safety standards are maintained in our businesses.

Councillor Wendy Cain, Cabinet Spokesperson for Public Health and Communities, said: “In Barnsley, we’re committed to keeping our communities safe, working hard across our teams to make sure residents can feel confident the products they buy meet legal standards.

“We work closely with businesses to make this possible, providing information to help them understand their responsibilities and issuing warnings where they can correct errors. Our recent prosecutions show how seriously we take our responsibility to protect our communities and stop potentially dangerous products from being on sale before further harm can occur.”

We’re here to help businesses understand their food safety responsibilities. If you own a food business and have one of the following concerns, please call our Trading Standards team on 01226 773743 for advice and support:

• If you’re selling any food products that are not labelled in English.
• If you’re selling imported products that don’t have the name and address of a UK business.
• If you’re selling food and drink but are not registered as a food business.