More Proof NEA Only Interested in Collection Protection Fees & Point Finger!

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ROJAK-POISONING CASE
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>80 Geylang Serai stalls graded C
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>NEA rating done in December but some stalls get certs only after 4-month delay

=> Jiat liao bee until like this!

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Geylang Serai Temporary Market stallholders (from left) Din Abas, Mohd Sahari, Mohamed, Salim Rashid and Asri Amat holding up their hygiene-rating labels from the National Environment Agency. Although some stalls were told about their new grades last December, they did not receive their labels until now. -- ST PHOTO: ALBERT SIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->NEARLY all the stalls at the Geylang Serai Temporary Market have received Cs for hygiene, following last week's food poisoning incident that killed two people.

=> Best paid $$$million ministers point finger point until like this!


Eighty of the 83 stalls there are now graded C, said the National Environment Agency (NEA). The other three received B grades when fresh grading certificates were handed out on Saturday morning to some of those affected.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>How it works
THE hawker hygiene grading system was started in 1997.

Officers from the National Environment Agency look at factors like the stall's cleanliness, pest infestation, housekeeping and food and personal hygiene levels. For each category, stalls are given points and a subsequent overall grading.

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>It turns out that some stalls were told about their new grades last December, but had not received their labels until now.
An NEA spokesman said it viewed the four-month delay 'seriously' and had tightened its operations to prevent a recurrence, adding that the new labels marked a 'fresh start' following the market's two-day spring cleaning and pest control works last week.
Deputy chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for National Development and the Environment Lee Bee Wah expressed concern over the delay.

=> U mean she's not aware of the lapse till now?

'By the time the results of the grading are out, conditions at the stalls could have changed,' she said, adding that she would be asking about the food-poisoning case in Parliament.
At least 10 stallholders who were downgraded to a C told The Straits Times unhappily they saw the move as a knee-jerk reaction to Singapore's worst case of mass food poisoning, traced to an Indian rojak stall there. At last count, 154 people who patronised the Rojak Geylang Serai stall from April 1 came down with food poisoning. Of the 48 warded, three are still in hospital, in stable condition.
Rojak Geylang Serai was graded C in 2007, but its stallholder continued to display its old B certificate, said NEA.
Mr Sahari Sulaiman, 45, who runs a satay stall, was one of those surprised that his stall was downgraded to a C: 'My stall has been a B all this while. No one told me about any downgrading.'
Other stallholders said the downgrading was uncalled for, given that the place was put through a wash and pest control works last Wednesday and Thursday.
During the clean-up organised by NEA and the market's management committee, stallholders were told to give their stalls a thorough scrub. Many also repainted the walls of their stalls. Pest controllers rid the market of 61 rats.
Mr Jaffer, 32, who runs a drinks stall, said: 'We've just cleaned up the whole place and now we find out about our C grade. It doesn't make sense.'
Yesterday, a Sunday, would ordinarily have been a busy day, but only a handful of stalls were open.
Satay seller Asri Amat, 59, said the rest of the stalls closed after lunch due to the poor crowd. Stallholders reckoned business had plunged by 70 per cent.
One stallholder said: 'It's now becoming a social problem where people are scared to come here.'
Dr Ong Seh Hong, a Marine Parade GRC MP who has visited the market twice since the incident, said stallholders were worried about how the episode will affect them, but were willing to cooperate and were 'staying positive'.
Meanwhile, another two people who ate at Ba Shu Ren Jia steamboat restaurant on Geylang Lorong 9 on Friday have come down with food poisoning, bringing the total number hit to 14. Two needed hospitalisation, but one has since been discharged. [email protected]

 

[Cestbon]

NEA have to point finger at someone.
FUCK NEA collect fee do nothing and when something when wrong comment this and that is the stall fault. NEA jobs is to inspect stall to prevent unwanted happen but they do nothing!!!!

 

[johnny333]

the stalls at the Geylang Serai Temporary Market have received Cs for hygiene, following last week's food poisoning incident that killed two people.

I give the PAP an F

 

[mscitw]

The disgrace of the nation, Kitchen Help Tan should surface and teach peasant hawkers how to clean their stalls given his $45,000 lesson in scrubbing a french kitchen.

 

[littlefish]

The grading system is designed to absolve NEA of any blame. If you get food posioning from a C-graded stall, they can just tell you "I told you so".

Simple logic will tell you that a system of just pass/fail is sufficient. However, NEA is afraid of taking the blame if a stall they graded as pass should cause food posioning in future. Sure, there may be different standards for restaurants and hawker centres. But I am sure they can come up with the different minimum standards required and strictly enforce them rather than having the stupid ABCD grading system.

 

[saratogas]

NEA have to point finger at someone.
FUCK NEA collect fee do nothing and when something when wrong comment this and that is the stall fault. NEA jobs is to inspect stall to prevent unwanted happen but they do nothing!!!!

Finger point at their best, just like when they found Mosquito babies along your HDB corridors. Its your fault, you didn't clear the drain...:oIo:

 

[borom]

Where is the political accountability in this case?
In almost any country,(except maybe North Korea), the government will have to apologize and show that the elected person as well as the civil servant responsible have to take the fall.

When will the 66% wake up their ideas and vote out those incompetent people who have the audacity to give themselves the highest salary in the world.

 

[po2wq]

... NEARLY all the stalls at the Geylang Serai Temporary Market have received Cs for hygiene, following last week's food poisoning incident that killed two people. ...

... It turns out that some stalls were told about their new grades last December, but had not received their labels until now. ...

... An NEA spokesman said it viewed the four-month delay 'seriously' and had tightened its operations to prevent a recurrence, adding that the new labels marked a 'fresh start' following the market's two-day spring cleaning and pest control works last week. ...

... At least 10 stallholders who were downgraded to a C told The Straits Times unhappily they saw the move as a knee-jerk reaction to Singapore's worst case of mass food poisoning ...

... Mr Sahari Sulaiman, 45, who runs a satay stall, was one of those surprised that his stall was downgraded to a C: 'My stall has been a B all this while. No one told me about any downgrading.' ...

iz a shameful mess ...

 

[rainnix]

"Deputy chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for National Development and the Environment Lee Bee Wah expressed concern over the delay."

She still have her hand on other people's ping pong balls...

"During the clean-up organised by NEA and the market's management committee, stallholders were told to give their stalls a thorough scrub. Many also repainted the walls of their stalls. Pest controllers rid the market of 61 rats.
Mr Jaffer, 32, who runs a drinks stall, said: 'We've just cleaned up the whole place and now we find out about our C grade. It doesn't make sense.'"

Wayang show, hawkers kenna conned by NEA. Serve them right for voting PAP last time.

 

[halsey02]

Mr Jaffer..it depends on how you know,& whose 'bola' you carry...do the 'right' thing& even have ten dancing rats in your stall..you get an "A"..in the meantime, be nice to to the rattus NEA & rattus pappies...not only they will give you a "F"..they will f..u!!

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

This is a classic case of pappyism. ALmost useless people calling themselves elites and then succumbing to the simplest of faults due to ignorance and pride.

THere is no hope for these people. Unfortunately, they continue to rule over you lot.

 

[red amoeba]

ask yourself, seriously, how many of us check the hygene rating of a hawker stall before you order? C or B you will still order as long as the food is good and nice.

In fact, most of the popular stalls with good food have only B or C - do we care? You still see long queues in front of their stalls.

 

[A Shankar]

Government keeps talking about the SPURS RETraining programmes, what is the use of displaying A, B, Cor D? Why can't MOH train hawkers to achieve good hygiene practise, just one pass or fail grade?

 

[nickers9]

This is a classic case of pappyism. ALmost useless people calling themselves elites and then succumbing to the simplest of faults due to ignorance and pride.

THere is no hope for these people. Unfortunately, they continue to rule over you lot.

Our elites PAP ministers are all busying playing golf, attending cooking lesson during or after working hours. They where got the time to attend to these trivial matters.

That's why Mas Selamat can ran away and these masses food posioning can happens!