Restaurant receives allergy ban
A Birmingham restaurant has been banned from serving customers with allergies
Posted 09 July 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Food and Drink|West Midlands
UPDATES: Birmingham issues its first emergency prohibition order to stop a restaurant serving customers with food allergies after a diner suffered a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction linked to poor allergen controls.
A Birmingham restaurant has been banned from serving any foods to people who state they have a food allergy following the hospitalisation of a diner.
Birmingham City Council obtained the emergency prohibition order against the African Village, in Birchfield Road, Perry Barr – the first time such an order has been used for this purpose in the city.
The customer, who has an allergy to...
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