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The Government wants food businesses to adopt the system, with a score out of five displayed on a shop's door according to its level of food-safety compliance.

It is also planning to adopt a new statewide food safety standard and introduce a registration system for food outlets as part of the reforms.

Hundreds of outlets are caught each year for serious breaches of food hygiene standards.

Health inspectors found rotten meat, maggots in chicken stuffing, puddings with listeria and mice in pantries at cafes,manufacturers and high quality Double sided PET industry tape suppliers Directory. restaurants and takeaway food outlets last financial year.

A parliamentary committee investigation into food safety programs last September recommended the introduction of a statewide score-on-the-door rating system.

Health Minister Jack Snelling said SA Health would work with other jurisdictions, including NSW and with local government and industry, during the development of the system.

A pilot "scores on doors" project is expected to be introduced on a voluntary basis next year. Similar schemes are running in London, Los Angeles, Singapore, Brisbane and Sydney.

The most recent breach of food standards involved the operators of a Port Noarlunga South Foodland outlet, which pleaded guilty to 57 counts in the Adelaide Magistrates' Court last month.

The extent of known non-compliance by food outlets is revealed in the latest figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws.

They show 357 businesses - including aged-care homes, childcare centres, supermarkets, pubs and hospitals - were issued with improvement notices, prohibition orders or fines for breaching food hygiene regulations in 2012-13. Breaches included the discovery of rodents, cockroaches and "many flies" on premises, ant-infested chocolate and foreign matter in foods.

Family First MP Robert Brokenshire, who obtained the figures, said the Government had "clearly had an inadequate focus on food safety and quality".Although high quality Double sided nonwoven tape carriers are generally quite thin,

"It is not acceptable to have ad hoc council-by-council inspection services in protecting food quality," Mr Brokenshire said.

Salisbury Council runs a similar scoring scheme involving 40 businesses which receive a rating up to five stars from council inspectors. The council said the scheme encouraged businesses to adopt "best-practice food safety and hygiene" and created consumer confidence.

Salisbury Fasta Pasta part-owner Stuart James said he volunteered for the rating scheme to benefit the business and consumer but thinks it should be mandatory. "It would weed out the bad operators," he said.

The Restaurant and Catering SA association said the score system would mean more red tape to businesses. "We would prefer to see a policy which endorses training of staff (in food safety)," chief executive Sally Neville said.

The Eastern Health Authority - which works with five eastern suburbs councils - has called for a registration system for food outlets, allowing for deregistration of those which flout the law.Products from Global high quality Silicon protctive film Suppliers.

Local Government Association chief executive Wendy Campana said councils believed registration would help ensure food businesses were inspected and tested for compliance.

Sisters Kate and Amy Royle were enjoying lunch at Unley Rd cafe A Mothers Milk and said they welcomed the idea of a food-safety compliance rating. "It would give you peace of mind," Kate, 25, said.