Council officers have vowed to crack down on unhygienic food businesses across Kirklees.
The warning follows a prosecution which ended at Leeds Crown Court with a £35,000 confiscation order against a man running a food supplies business.
Checks on premises in both Huddersfield and Cleckheaton found dirty conditions and large stocks of food were condemned and destroyed.
Mohammed Imran Khan ran food establishments in West Yorkshire without the necessary approval.
Khan of Bradford, was ordered to pay the amount at the end of a Kirklees Council investigation into how he ran his businesses.
Environmental Health Officers worked in partnership with Financial Investigators from West Yorkshire Trading Standards .
They found he was operating from Unit 3 at Moor End Works, Balme Road, Cleckheaton supplying food establishments in West Yorkshire whilst being unregistered and unapproved. As a consequence no routine food safety inspections had been undertaken.
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On December 17 a warrant was executed at Unit 3 and a large commercial food manufacturing business was found to be in operation and a number of food safety contraventions were identified.
A large quantity of unlabelled, unquantifiable meat was condemned and destroyed. Other food products were incorrectly stored and were being prepared in unsanitary conditions or with equipment not fit for purpose.
The unit was supplying a number of sweet and food stores in West Yorkshire including shops trading under the name of La Jawaab.
Khan had previously pleaded guilty to offences of being unregistered and/ or unapproved at Unit 3 and also at a La Jawaab shop in his control at 155 Manchester Road, Huddersfield together with a number of food hygiene offences.
He also had previous food safety convictions from April and June 2012 for food hygiene contraventions for La Jawaab shops at 610 Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury and 44 Oak Lane, Bradford.
Khan was handed a six-month jail term suspended for two years, as well as being ordered to pay £35,000.
Clr Steve Hall, Kirklees Council Cabinet Member for Place, said that the positive outcome of the court case was an excellent example of partnership working with Trading Standards officers and should send a strong message to other people who might think they can get away with contravening the law.
He added: “Food traders must be registered and subject to safety inspections. We will continue to prosecute in cases where we feel the health of local people is being put at risk by bad practice.”
