Patiala health dept raids store, seizes expired food items

The health department raided a departmental store on Saturday and seized 27 expired food items. 

The raid was conducted after a child reportedly fell ill after eating an expired chocolate bought from the store.

District health officer Dr Vijay said that they found several packed food items kept on display despite being expired at Narain Singh and Sons Departmental store.

Patiala food safety officer Jaswinder Singh said they had collected samples of seven food items from the store and they would be sending the samples to the state lab for quality check.

Sources in the health department said that many of the food items which were available at the departmental store had exceeded its expiry date a year before.

He said that the elder one recovered, but the younger one had to be admitted to hospital after she started vomiting.