KARACHI: The director of the Sindh Food Authority on Monday said that a restaurant where two children died after of alleged food poisoning had been served an improvement notice two months earlier. Speaking about the deaths of two children on Sunday afternoon from alleged “food poisoning” after dining at a restaurant in Karachi’s Zamzama area, Sindh Food Authority Director Abrar Sheikh said the restaurant had been inspected around two months ago and was served an improvement notice along with a checklist. “We did not issue a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the restaurant,” Sheikh said while adding that they did not “have a certificate or registration process in place earlier”. “We will start the process of registering eateries across the province from the end of this month,” he further said. The Sindh Food Authority director explained, “The provincial assembly passed into law the Sindh Food Authority Act a few months ago and officers were also appointed recently.” INP
