An inspector calls
Guns, knives, and safety alarms. Being a food safety inspector is a risky business.
Restaurateurs with guns, chefs wielding knives, and severed heads in bin bags. Life as a food inspector is a lot more fraught than you might think.
Emily Thomas meets three food safety officers from around the globe who reveal what it’s like to be one of the most feared people in the industry.
They have the power to close a restaurant. Some can even make arrests. No wonder they’ve got some stories that seem to belong more in a mafia film than a food show. And the danger doesn’t end there. It’s not just their lives at risk – but yours too. We hear about some of the unsavoury things that happen to our food behind kitchen doors - and the sneaky tactics used to conceal them.
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A restaurant owner threatened me with a gun
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- Thu 11 Apr 2019 02:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service Online, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa only
- Thu 11 Apr 2019 03:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service UK DAB/Freeview
- Thu 11 Apr 2019 04:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service Australasia, Americas and the Caribbean, South Asia & East Asia only
- Thu 11 Apr 2019 10:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service except West and Central Africa
- Thu 11 Apr 2019 17:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service Australasia
- Thu 11 Apr 2019 21:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service except Europe and the Middle East
- Thu 11 Apr 2019 22:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service Europe and the Middle East
- Sun 14 Apr 2019 07:32GMT³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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