Hyderabad, September 2: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)  conducted a raid on IKEA store at Madhapur on Saturday after a customer posted on Twitter a photo of his plate of vegetable biryani in which an insect was found. According to a report published in The Hindu, Abeed Mohammed visited the store on Friday morning and had food there. In his twitter post, he tagged the Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K.T. Rama Rao.

GHMC food safety officials collected food sample from the store. According to the report, they also fined the store for not doing waste segregation and failing to comply with plastic use norms. Abeed’s complaint was forwarded to the Assistant Medical Officer of Health. An official told The Hindu that the store representatives admitted that the complaint was true, and an insect was indeed found in the customer’s food. The representatives of the store claimed that the food was not prepared at their kitchen, but was flown in from Haldiram’s of Nagpur.

According to the report, the samples have been sent to a lab for bacteriological analysis, and both IKEA and Haldiram’s will be issued notices. The store was also fined Rs ₹15,000 for plastic covers of less than 50 microns’ thickness.

Sweden-based furniture retail company, IKEA opened its first store in India on August 9. The home furnishing company has employed 950 people directly and another 1,500 indirectly at the Hyderabad store. The store in Hyderabad is the first of 25 outlets planned to be set up in India by 2025. The second store would be in Mumbai next year, followed by Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR.

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