The Food Safety wing conducted widespread checks across the State, focussing on food outlets selling shawarma, to check if the norms issued by the department regarding the safe preparation of shawarma were being followed.
On Saturday, 88 special squads of the Food Safety wing conducted inspections in 1,287 food outlets selling shawarma, following which, the sale of shawarma was stopped in 148 outlets.
The department also issued rectification notices to 178 outlets and compounding notices to 308 outlets. Action was also taken against 146 outlets which failed to follow the guidelines on the preparation of mayonnaise served along with the shawarma.
