A small matter of alleged food poisoning

The Llay Fish Bar at the centre of the likely cause of the e-coli outbreak was inspected on the 13th August 2008 by Environmental Health Inspectors from Wrexham Council. It received no points at all out of a possible five. Now - whilst I am not an expert in these matters I must ask the question - surely if an establishment received no points, something must be seriously wrong with it and why was it allowed to continue providing food to the general public? Whilst watching the BBC 6 o'clock news this evening, a spokesman from Wrexham Council said that the problem in closing down the establishment is that the Council would have had to go to Court to prove their case that the establishment should be closed on health grounds and to obtain the relevant Court order. It begs the question that with 0 points out of 5 - how bad does an establishment have to be before the Council WILL take action. Surely if the Environmental Health Inspectors had had the courage of their convictions they should have had no issues in applying to the Court for the necessary order. How bad must these places be before the public are properly protected?