Wiener Linien is adding it’s first hybrid buses to its public transport operation in the next fortnight, in addition to the twelve electric buses introduced into the city centre. The move is part of a bid to modernise their fleet of buses around the city and make Vienna transport cleaner and more environmentally friendly. The […]
The results of a series of food tests are likely to turn fish lovers stomachs.The Austrian Labour Chamber (AK) said today (Fri) two of the 20 fresh fish it bought at Viennese supermarkets and specialised dealers were unfit to eat.AK said the affected products also smelt bad when they were examined after being purchased. The […]
An ice cream investigation has revealed almost one in four served to the public suffer serious hygiene flaws.The Upper Austrian Labour Chamber (AKOÖ) said today (Tues) that hygiene specialists who examined ice cream on sale at parlours in the provincial capital Linz found only eight of the 19 probes they took to be of passable […]
The deadly bacteria listeria detected in a batch of smoked trout yesterday was “an isolated case”, the firm Eisvogels chief Hubert Bernegger claimed today (Fri).He said the firm, based in Molln in Upper Austrias Kirchdorf district, was maintaining all appropriate hygienic standards in its production and had spent more than 60,000 Euros annually in micro-biological […]