ABSTRACT
The Food Standards Act 1990 provides for a prohibition order imposed by a court on a person convicted of a food offence. The enforcement authority is required to serve the prohibition order and fix a copy of the order on the outside of the premises. After an outbreak of E coli 0157 food poisoning, such a prohibition order was placed on a cheese production company. Hearing a challenge to the order,97 the Court of Appeal found that the order was posted in the interests of public health, and was proportional to the nature of the risk. The Food Standards Act also contemplates emergency control orders and regular use is made of this power to deal with serious emergency threats to health.98
