Food safety officials raid Vyttila KFC outlet

KOCHI: District food safety officials raided the Vyttila KFC outlet on Monday following a complaint that stale chicken was served there. It was the second such raid conducted here in a month's time. The raid team comprising Jacob Thomas, food safety official, Edapally Circle, and V N Sasikumar, food safety officer, Kochi Corporation, seized frozen and cooked chicken from the outlet. The samples were sent to the regional analytical laboratory for tests. "We can say something on the issue only after we receive the results of the lab tests," said Jacob Thomas. Anoop, the Thiruvananthapuram resident, who filed the complaint on Sunday night, said district food safety officials hadn't responded promptly to his complaint. "We waited till 12 midnight for the officials to arrive. But nobody turned up. We are ready to handover the food, which we had bought from the outlet and kept in the freezer," said Anoop. However, the officials denied the allegation. "We came to know about the incident only by midnight, and there is no system in place to conduct raids at that time of the night," they said. They said it was also not possible for them to collect the chicken that the complainant had bought from the restaurant and send it for lab tests as the restaurant could claim that it had not been bought from their shop. In the raid earlier this month, officials collected samples from the two KFC outlets in the city and sent it for lab tests. District food safety officer Ajith Kumar said the tests hadn't shown anything wrong with the seized food.
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