ast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. A Hyderabad-based NGO, approached Lokayukta to direct Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governments to shut down all the KFC outlets after it found traces of bacteria such as Salmonella and E.coli in its samples. In response, Lokayukta has issued notices to both the state governments to submit a report on KFC by August 5 th.
“Since the samples were tested at a government-run laboratory and found to contain harmful pathogens, we have sought orders to close down KFC,” Achyuta Rao of Andhra Pradesh Balala Hakkula Sangham told.
“We took the samples from Himayatnagar, Vidyanagar, Chikkadpally, Nacharam and ECIL X Road on June 18 and sent it to the state food laboratory the same day in packed and sealed condition in the original KFC snack box,” said Anuradha Rao, president of the NGO said.
While E.Coli causes bloody diarrhoea, anaemia and kidney failure, Salmonella Bacteria can trigger typhoid, gastroenteritis and enertic fever. KFC, however, brushed aside these allegations as baseless.
