Taking action against Domino's Pizza outlet in the Amroha district, the Food and Drug Authority (FDA) on Tuesday suspended its licence and has banned all kinds of sales from the outlet till further orders.

Following a complaint, the FDA has sent a sample of tomato sauce snacks dressing to its Kolkata laboratory for testing and the sample was found unsafe for consumption.

The FDA cancelled the license after receiving the report and also banned sale of any kind of product from its Gajraula outlet till further orders.

Meanwhile, following complaints of quality related discrepancies in biscuits of Parle Monaco, the district administration of Allahabad has banned the supply of all of its products in Allahabad and six adjoining districts.

It is to be mentioned that a girl fell ill after consuming a Parle Monaco biscuit in the Allahpur locality of Allahabad on Monday following which a team of the district administration and civil supply officials raided its Naini-based Allahabad super distributor godown on Tuesday and seized over 800 packets of the biscuit.

The team also found license related anomalies at this distributor who also further supplies stock to six other adjacent districts. "The Naini distributor supplies products to 44 other distributors in Allahabad, Kaushambi, Chtirakut, Bhadohi, Banda and Mirzapur. Samples have been sent for testing and further action will be taken after we get the report", an official of the team informed.

A company spokesperson has given a statement on FDA suspending license of Domino's Pizza:

"Jubilant FoodWorks Limited/Domino's Pizza would like to state that we believe in and adhere to the highest international quality standards and Indian food laws. The Tomato ketchup snack dressing product being investigated was procured by us from a reputed 3rd party packaged foods company and goes through regular testing for food safety from Govt. accredited labs. The particular sample under question, was manufactured in Sept '14 and collected for testing in Oct '14. It failed test on ground of "package label non-compliance", as the label was detaching from the package but "passed" on all other parameters of food safety. The retest was carried out in March '15 from the same sample, which in the meantime had gone past it's 'Best before Date', which was 6 months. Thus, it was an invalid test. The latest order has been issued on the basis of this questionable re-testing of the same sample picked up in Oct '14. We are raising this case with the relevant respected authorities to check the validity of the suspension order, given this background.

While we have all relevant test results for the recent stocks/batches of tomato ketchup snack dressing from Govt accredited labs but just as an immediate precautionary measure we have put the tomato ketchup snack dressing on hold in all our restaurants, till we clear the matter with the authorities. We assure all Domino's Pizzas lovers that for us food safety is the top most priority and we take every step to ensure that we are offering the right products to them."



