Cockroaches live in the band saw meat

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The market Yasine is located in the neighbourhood of Cartierville, in Montreal.

Dominique Scali

Friday, December 15, 2017 18:53

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The Market Yasine Montreal was so infested with cockroaches in 2015 that the critters were running around on the inside of the saw at the meat section beef.

“I took the paper roll and two roaches came out of the roller and fell on the table. These two cockroaches were alive and moving, ” noted the inspectors during their visit on December 8, 2015.

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Small cockroaches and droppings near the packing machine.

The trade, located at 5930, rue De Salaberry, Montreal has received a fine of 1400 $ in September of last year because of the presence of insects in December 2015. The market has also received a $ 2,000 fine in June because he did not have a valid licence of the ministry of Food.

Flour infested

“There were bags of flour sorghum with small insects that were moving inside “, one can read in the report of the December 8, 2015.

The droppings of cockroaches “reading” the above boxes of mango juice and formula milk. Among the crates and on the ground, a small worm, and cockroach living “all sizes” were going around.

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Dead cockroaches among the crates of juice.

“During the inspection, cockroaches, adult and babies were walking on the walls “, wrote the inspectors. Under the counter refrigerated, the corpses of dead cockroaches and their droppings were mixed with food residues, dust and cobwebs.

Saw meat, which had been used that morning, was particularly unsanitary. “There was a cockroach living that moved its antennas and a path to cockroach droppings on the surfaces and the removable tray “, tell the inspectors.

The situation was so serious that they have directed the trade to close its doors temporarily.

Still saw meat

“There is still the high activity of cockroaches living in the saw to meat,” says an inspector two days later.

The market also seemed to have a problem with rodents. “Make sure you maintain the control and the control of vermin “, is reminiscent of an auditor in its report of 11 December 2015, at a third visit.

A little over two months later, the cockroaches seemed to have abandoned the saw to meat, but this last was not clean. “Accumulation of residue of meat on the surfaces of the saw to meat, and support for knives “, noted by the inspectors during a visit on February 25, 2016.

The owner has not responded to calls from the Log.

♦ It is necessary to wait several months after an offence for a judge to hear the case and make its award. The details of these judgments have been obtained as the result of a request for access to information.

Excerpts from the report

“Of cockroaches, adult and babies were walking on the walls” – The inspectors

• Infestation of cockroaches

• Worms in the flour

• Vermin

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