Salt Lake food samples ‘unsafe’

Police raids a Newtown rotten meat shop .

KOLKATA: Meat and other food samples that were collected by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation over the last one and a half months from a number of eateries and restaurants in and around Salt Lake and Rajarhat have been found to be unsafe for consumption.

The civic authorities had earlier sent around 33 samples to the state food safety lab for tests.After more than a month, the civic authorities received test reports of 13 out of 33 samples on Monday. What’s worse, out of the 13 samples, eight of them have been found to be ‘unsafe’ for consumption.

Civic authorities said the eight samples have excess level of a number of common bacteria. “We will now send the test report to the state health department following which appropriate action would be taken as per instructions from higher authorities. We are also for test reports of the rest 20 samples,” said Bidhannagar Corporation MMiC (Health) Pranay Roy.

The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation had conducted raids at several eateries and restaurants in different places of Salt Lake and Rajarhat from the second week of May.