Food producer fined £226,000 for polluting sewers

Food producer, Faccenda Foods, has been ordered to pay £226,460 in fines and costs after Anglian Water discovered it was breaching the conditions of its consent.

The food giant which trades as Avara Foods, was found to have been allowing trade effluent which did not meet the required quality standards to enter sewers and a water recycling centre serving the town of Brackley.

Avara pleaded guilty to three offences under the Water Industry Act 1991 and was fined £200,000. The company was also ordered to pay £26,270 costs and a victim surcharge of £190. This is the largest fine ever imposed in the Anglian Water region for trade effluent breaches.