Wharf Street Quality Meats in Queens Park fined | Australian Markets

A butcher in Queens Park has been slapped with a whopping positive after health inspectors found rodent faeces all through the premises and in the food.

The house owners of Wharf Street Quality Meats was fined $62,500 and ordered to pay $2,125 in prices after health inspectors discovered the institution was not up to scratch.

The butcher opened in 2010 and attracts a swathe of good evaluations from locals who reward the freshness and high quality of the meat.

In November 2024, City of Canning inspectors learnt Wharf Street Quality Meats was working nicely under commonplace and issued an enchancment discover.

This discover was not complied with, resulting in a prohibition order for the processing and sale of food on November 25.

The butcher was in breach of 16 food security requirements as inspectors discovered unclean gear, probably hazardous meals saved outdoors of temperature control and failure to stop the entry and harbourage of pests.

Rodent faeces was discovered all through the butcher store and there was proof of rodent faeces in food.

On July 11, the store proprietor plead guilty to all 16 expenses in Perth Magistrates Court.

City health officers have now granted the butcher store permission to reopen.

The $62,500 positive is the second largest handed down to a food business in 2025.

Scarborough’s Brighton Bakery was fined $100,000 in June for a raft of unsafe food practices that included uncovered uncooked meat merchandise being saved subsequent to “ready-to-eat salad items,” and meals being stored at temperatures nicely above secure ranges.

Earlier this yr the house owners of Swadesh Indian Restaurant in Baldivis have been fined $40,000 by health inspectors.

Last yr, Lavoro Italiano Restaurant, additionally in the City of Rockingham, was fined the identical quantity when inspectors discovered crawling cockroaches and cigarette butts in the dry storage.

Prosecutors described the kitchen as one of the worst they’d seen in WA, saying: “Cockroaches seen during the day indicates a serious infestation. When they were pointed out, the owner was not surprised”.

But a Nandos in Willetton copped the largest positive of 2024 when it was hit with $160,000 for being filthy, crawling with rats and promoting food previous its use-by date.

This was adopted by Belmont-based Aquarium Seafood Chinese Restaurant, which was fined $80,000 for being soiled and riddled with pests.