A Newport food business has been served with 2 Food Hygiene Improvement Notices and awarded a 1-star food hygiene rating – meaning ‘major improvement necessary’ – after inspectors uncovered a catalogue of food safety and hygiene failings during an inspection.
Afrowight Ltd, trading on High Street in Newport, was inspected by Isle of Wight Council’s Environmental Health team on 21st May 2026.
Inspectors found a range of hygiene failings, including dirty food preparation equipment with old meat residue, unclean scales and packaging equipment, raw meat juices contaminating storage areas, damaged walls and flooring, defective food preparation surfaces and broken freezer trays.
Officers also found there was no hot running water at the hand wash basin, with fairy washing-up liquid being used instead of hand soap and toilet roll being used to dry hands because no hygienic drying facilities were available. An electric fly killer was positioned directly above an area where raw meat was being prepared, creating a potential contamination risk.
The report further states that disinfectant being used on food contact surfaces did not meet the required British Standards, while repackaged raw meat lacked mandatory country of origin information. During questioning, the food business operator was also unable to correctly state the legal chilled food storage temperature, leading inspectors to conclude there was a lack of basic food hygiene knowledge.
The business has been ordered to complete a series of improvements, with some requiring immediate action and others to be completed over the coming weeks and months.
Food Hygiene Rating – Scores on the doors
Compliance with food hygiene and safety procedures – 10
Compliance with structural requirements – 15
Confidence in management/control procedures – 20
Total score: 45 (1 rating)
Island Echo has contacted Afrowight for comment, but no response has been received.
Good grief
There are so many filth holes thesedays I hardly eat out.
quelle surprise
Disgusting are the owners English? People just think they can do what they like in a food establishment, we have food hygiene rules for a reason, hopefully no one has become ill.
close it down as it will just carry on being another shit hole people need to boycott it so it has to close as these people should know the basic hygiene surely????
What does being English or not have to do with it?!
Fact is it’s a filthy place no matter who runs it
Too be honest what does nationality have to do with being
healthy and hygienic establishments!
Let’s not forget it wasn’t long ago when Busy Bees
were awarded a 1 star rating.
FILTH is FILTH, IT COMES IN ALL NATIONALITIES!
Any establishment scoring less than 3 should be STOPPED
from trading with immediate effect!.
If it is that bad then why the hell is it still trading, places with less than 4 stars should forced to close and only allowed to trade again when every fault has been rectified, the council are playing with peoples health.
The Council STILL cannot STOP motorists speeding
this evening approx 6.20pm on my way back from
Newport a Numpty in a large SUV Porsche was dring across
the racecourse roundabout towards Wooton doing 70mph+
Too be honest the driver looked what he was, going so fast
I couldn’t see the registration number.
Even though signs state clearly 40mph HE DIDN’T GIVE A
FLYING FART!
The Numpty pulled into one of the houses on the left hand side just
after Harwoods.
I thought decent people lived in those houses, shows how wrong
one can be.
PROVES MY POINT – ONCE A NUMPTY ALWAYS A NUMPTY
Don’t get me started on the vehicles parking on Double Yellow Lines
along Park Road in Ryde.
THIS COUNCIL COULDN’T RUN A BATH BETWEEM THEM!
So I don’t expect them to come down on Filthy establishments
they wouldn’t know how to!
Unsurprised
Is that ‘Bush meat’?
Or peoples missing pets?
Should be closed immediately.
Lots of cats going missing lately.
Filthy place should have been shut down.
Can these people just do what they like.
Just shut it, dirty hovel
I wouldn’t feed a dog with food from there. The place is a stinking dump.
once upon a time we could have a meal out or takeaway with the reasonable expectation you wouldn’t be spending the rest of the night curled up in the loo
Now there’s a surprise?