GUWAHATI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSAAI) have declared food served at Three Guys restaurant as safe for consumption.
In a press communiqué, the restaurant owners said that test conducted on the quality of food served in the restaurant yielded positive results.
“The Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) have taken samples from our kitchen and after a series of tests conducted, have declared our food to be 100 per cent safe. The test result from laboratory mandated by the government has validated our position that our food was and is safe. The health and safety of consumers is and will always remain our highest priority,” the release said.
The FSSAI conducted tests on prepared food on Chicken Hot Garlic, Veg Manchurian, Chicken Butter Masala among others from the restaurant. The FSSAI found negative results on ‘Test for Pacticides’, no extraneous harmful matter seen on microscopic examination, negative on ‘test for mineral oil’ and negative on ‘test for added synthetic colour’.
In August last, the Jonali-based family restaurant, Three Guys, had allegedly served chicken containing worms to its customers. This snowballed to filing of a complaint at the Geetanagar Police Station and a cross complaint by the restaurant owners against the customer in the same police station. The restaurant made headlines after a customer shared a video in which they confronted the waiters of the restaurant about worms that they allegedly found in the chicken. They had ordered a hot garlic chicken, one of the favourite items on the restaurant’s menu. The restaurant had also filed a defamation case against the customers.
Authorities of the Three Guys restaurant had, on August 9, taken to social media platforms asking people not to spread rumours and wait until the report from the food safety authorities came.
Based on their complaint, officials of FSAAI had arrived and taken away samples of the food item in question.
The restaurant had been asked to shut down for a week by the minister of state for health & family welfare, government of Assam, Pijush Hazarika.
Speaking to G Plus, to revamp the food industry in the city, Hazarika had said, “There are certain problems with food sample collection since we cannot conduct the test on the spot and it generally takes around 15 days to get results from the laboratory. Necessary steps are being taken by the department to curb the problem of unsafe food and the Assam government has procured a testing kit from Germany that will be able to test food samples on the spot. It is expected to be delivered in a week.”