A toilet compared to one from Trainspotting and blood-stained duvets used to cover beef were among the horrendous conditions inside food warehouses which supplied restaurants and local stores.
The premises in Leyton, Waltham Forest, in north-east London have been shut down by Environmental Health officers due to “revolting” conditions.
Kim Son Ltd and Four Seasons Catering Supplies Ltd were supplying food for restaurants, takeaways and cash and carries, reported MyLondon.
Yet health officers found evidence of a "severe rodent infestation" throughout the warehouses located on Cromwell Industrial Estate.
The premises also had no hot water and there were “filthy blood-stained duvets acting as insulation covering packs of beef”.
The toilets were so bad that a judge said it would not have been out of place in the hit 90s movie Trainspotting.
All three of the food warehouse units were closed immediately following the service of Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notices.
Applications were also made to the Magistrates Court for Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Orders, preventing the premises from reopening until the imminent risk to the public had been removed.
At an application hearing at Thames Magistrates Court on November 18, the district judge granted the Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Orders.
Neither business owner attended the hearing and both firms were each asked to pay costs of £890.
Cllr Clyde Loakes, Waltham Forest Council’s Deputy Leader, said: “When our Environmental Health officers visit a premises, they never know what they are going to find.
“But this was a revolting sight by any measure.
“The judge’s damming observation that one of the toilets looked like the Worst Toilet in Scotland from Trainspotting says it all.
“It’s unacceptable in any circumstances – but in an environment where people handle food you have to wonder what they were thinking, even if it wasn’t being used.”
