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A 14-year-old girl has died after eating shawarma from a restaurant at Paramathi in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district. Health Minister Ma Subramanian said Tuesday that 42 people who ate from the restaurant were receiving treatment and that government officials would inspect restaurants across the state.
Kalaiyarasi, a resident of A S Pettai, ate the shawarma on the night of September 16 and experienced severe discomfort the next day. She was taken to a private hospital but received no treatment as there were not enough staff, it being a Sunday. She was reportedly found dead on Monday morning at her home.
The minister said in a statement that 200 people ate at the restaurant on the same day and that the authorities immediately identified the affected and admitted them to hospitals. Three samples of food have been taken from the restaurant and sent to a laboratory in Salem for testing, he said. The restaurant has been sealed and its licence cancelled. Officials destroyed 42 kg of meat seized from there.
In the wake of the incident, the sale of shawarma/grill chicken has been banned across the district. A 13-member team of health inspectors and other officials from the food safety department has been deployed to monitor and inspect all restaurants in the district.
The minister said the girl’s death was saddening. “The food safety authorities are directed to conduct a quality check at restaurants across the state from time to time and submit a report. An explanation has been sought over the incident from the Namakkal food safety officer,” he said.
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Police arrested three people, including the restaurant owner, Naveen Kumar, and two cooks who hail from Odisha in connection with the incident. They have been booked under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, causing hurt by means of poison with intent to commit offence, and sale of noxious food and drink.
As per data shared by the health and family welfare department, 38,191 inspections were carried out across the state by the food safety department between April and August and 1,478 of them were in Namakkal. “A total of 1,894 cases were registered in Tamil Nadu and Rs 1.55 crore has been collected in fines from violators,” the data read.
According to the minister, officials had since last month raided eateries selling shawarma and other easily perishable food and destroyed 280 kg of spoiled items.
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