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While I agree that the penalties for breaching food hygiene / safety standards should be high, I think a site like this has pretty serious flaws. Lets say a restaurant cleans up their act after being previously penalised. Can they ever get off this site? How about if the business is sold and the problems of previous management solved?

Each marker has the date issued of the fine listed, and I purge them after a while—it much maps to what the government has publicly listed, though I agree it's not ideal/perfect.

We have something similar in the Czech Republic, run directly by the food inspection authority –– http://www.potravinynapranyri.cz/Search.aspx?sentcity=&lang=...

.. whats this about?

BadFood shows an interactive map of restaurants in Sydney that have been given a penalty from The Department of Primary Industries Food Authority. So it makes the public name and shame list of restaurants being negligent with health and safety more accessible through a map

Here's the repo, in case you're interested in the backend: https://github.com/theden/badfood

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