The task force team of the Food Safety Department inspected a restaurant and an ice-cream store in Himayathnagar and found numerous hygiene violations on Saturday.
At the Clove Vegetarian Fine Dine - The Platinum Hotels restaurant, expired products such as cheese, spices, sandwich bread, and brown sugar worth ₹5,844 were found and discarded. Live cockroaches were spotted in the ice-cream storage unit, while fungal-infected carrots and improperly stored cooked vegetable biryani were also found. Additionally, an unlabelled stock of 35 kilograms of chana dal was found - and the samples were taken for testing.
At the Cream Stone ice-cream outlet in Himayathnagar, the team discovered expired strawberry paste, improperly stored cans of pineapple titbits, besides cakes and pastries without ‘use-by’ dates. Unsanitary conditions, including open dustbins, were also observed, as per a release.
“Notices will be issued to both establishments, and adjudication cases will be filed as per the FSSAI Act,” said Commissioner of the Food Safety Department.
