Tribune News Service

Patiala, August 23

After a video of a cockroach in “pakoras” at a famous sweets shop went viral, a team of the Health Department, led by the District Health Officer, raided the shop this night.

The team members inspected the shop - Malhotra Sweet Corner - for hours before collecting food samples. The team collected samples of several items, including “paneer pakoras”, “gulab jamun”, “kalakand” and “ghewar”.

Dr Shaley Jaitely, District Health Officer, said a video of a customer showing a pest (cockroach) inside “paneer pakoras” went viral.

“After the video went viral, an emergency raid was conducted at the shop. The sweets shop premises was thoroughly inspected by the food safety team of the Health Department,” said Dr Shaley.

She said the video that was doing the rounds on the social media was of Monday only. Necessary instructions were given to the food handler.

She said: “The samples will be sent to the state food laboratory for testing.”