The
departmental outlet was raided by health officials and over 56 kg of expired
food items were seized
The sale of rava and cooking oil
after their expiry period led to food poisoning that affected 107 security
personnel at Velankanni on Sunday, health officials said.
A premier department store had
indulged in such an unfair trade practice, according to the offficials. The
rava and cooking oil were used in the preparation of ‘kichdi’ that led to food
poisoning.
A team of health officials
constituted by two joint directors, four deputy directors, and State-level
officers had arrived here on Sunday to take stock of the situation. Based on
the food chart deduced from the inputs given by patients, it was ‘kichdi’ that
was suspected to have triggered the food poisoning.
Based on the inputs, the team
inspected the pack of rava and cooking oil, both of which were way past their
expiry date.
Following this, Krishna Stores, the
departmental outlet in question, was raided by the health officials and over 56
kg of expired food items, with their expiry dates way past one and half years
and short expiries were seized.
Speaking to The Hindu on
condition of anonymity, a State-level officer laid to rest assumptions that
super-chlorination was the cause of illness. “Super-hlorination would only
cause stomach ache and discomfort, but not diarrhoea. The symptoms pointed to
other causes, when we started investigating,” the official said.
“In addition, the cooking oil that
was supplied on August 28 has a post-dated manufacturing date of September 1,”
the official said. According to him, it was necessary for the public to be
vigilant of the purchases made.
The men from Nagapattinam police
force, Tamil Nadu Battalion Force, Railway Protection Force were among those
who had taken ill and were admitted to three different hospitals on Sunday.
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