A customer who had suffered food
poisoning alerted the authorities
The Food Safety and Drug
Administration on Thursday prohibited operations of a hotel in Saidapet for
failure to maintain hygiene in its kitchen.
As many as eight samples including
rotten mutton and chicken were seized from Namma Chettinadu hotel on Thursday.
The samples have been sent to King Institute of Preventive Medicine for
testing. “We will issue improvement notice to the hotel. The hotel will be
permitted to operate only after rectifying the defects,” said S. Lakshmi
Narayanan, designated officer, Food Safety and Drug Administration, Chennai
District.
The action on Monday followed an
email sent on October 28 to dofssache@gmail.com by Shyamsundar, a resident of
Tambaram. Mr. Shyamsundar had suffered food poisoning, vomiting and diarrhoea
after having meals at the hotel a few weeks ago.
“They had not washed the floor for
the past eight months. The floor had blood stains. We seized two rotten
carcasses of goat and a large quantity of rotten chicken,” said an official of
Food Safety Department.
Six samples of oil, rice, dal and
sweets were also sent to King Institute. Customers affected by such food may
send emails to the commissioner of food safety in the State at commrfssa@gmail.com.
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