Saturday, October 13, 2012

Legal trouble awaits KFC for serving worms with chicken

A customer who found worms in his chicken dish at the KFC outlet in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, has filed a complaint with the consumer affairs court and human rights commission.



Shiju Basheer who was served worm-infested chicken said that he would go to any extent to get justice. "I am disappointed by the service they offered. To find worms in chicken from KFC was shocking. I have already talked to my advocate and will file a complaint," he said.

"Some of the samples we collected from KFC were five months old. Since the worms were found in fried chicken, we need to find if the chicken was infected with bacteria," a food-safety official said. The official however, said that, although chicken can be stored for nine-months, it is very important that the temperature in which it is stored is maintained at 18 degrees celsius.


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"During transportation or storage, this temperature may have changed which made the chicken go bad. However, we have to get the lab results to see how badly the chicken was infected," the official said. The KFC outlet was temporarily shut down after Basheer complained of worms in the dish served to him. Basheer's brother Shiju who was admitted to hospital after he had eaten the chicken dish from KFC was later discharged.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

if you stored your chicken at 18C you would have worms in a few days! :)

arbroath said...

I thought that temperature was a bit suspect. :)