BOSSES of a popular Chinese takeaway in Barrow are due to appear in court accused of serving food containing peanuts to a woman with an allergy.
So So Yung and Wai Yung from Shengs in Ainslie Street have been charged by Cumbria County Council's trading standards department with failing to comply with legislation concerning food safety and hygiene.
The Chinese takeaway is alleged to have sold a Szechuan Chicken Chow Mein to Jennifer Wood on February 19 of this year despite the customer requesting the dish be free from peanuts.
The meal is alleged to have contained peanut protein.
The alleged offences fall under the Food Safety Act (1990) and the Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations (2013).
The charges come after a number of high-profile cases nationally in which allergy sufferers have died as a result of eating food they believed to be free from allergens.
Shengs is due to appear at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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