WELL done to the Standard for encouraging us to check food hygiene ratings when considering going out for a meal. 

May I suggest that we also consider where we buy our bread in Cirencester. 

Too often shop assistants use the same hand to take our money as they do for handling the loaf or rolls we are buying.

This is an unhygienic practice, not tolerated in many other countries. 

We wash our hands before eating but in too many cases dirty fingers have already been all over the slice of bread on our plate.

DR DJ DUNTHORN
Cirencester