Hyderabad: A customer was shocked to find cockroaches in his food served at a Subway outlet in Hyderabad Central Mall in Punjagutta. He took a video of the offending creatures and also lodged a complaint with the State Commissioner and Directorate of Institute of Preventive Medicine. Marunganti Vamshikrishna Reddy, a resident of Yousufguda found small cockroaches in his soft drink. The store was raided by food inspectors from the institute of preventive medicine on Thursday.
A case has been booked under Food Safety Information Infrastructure (FSII) Act 2006. GHMC has also served a show cause notice to the outlet under the GHMC Sanitation and Hygiene Act. “The lady at the store started shouting at us, which I felt was quite strange. I started taking videos and pictures for proof to lodge a complaint but the lady was misbehaving with us despite us being so polite,” Mr Reddy said.
Dr K. Shankar, director of food safety at the Institute of Preventive Medicine told this newspaper, “We received a complaint from a person through WhatsApp; we received a few videos and pictures from the person. We immediately informed the local authorities. Mr Sudarshan Reddy, who is the gadget food inspector, visited the store along with a team and collected the samples of food. We have sent the samples to the Food Safety Laboratory, Nacharam. The team also inspected the kitchen.
