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Handling 'dry ice': Gurugram Admn issues SOPs to restaurants

Sumedha Sharma Gurugram, March 6 A day after the arrest of Sector 90 restaurant’s manager for negligently serving “dry ice”, the Gurugram administration has issued special standard operating procedures (SOPs) to all restaurants. The administration has ordered the eateries to...
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Sumedha Sharma

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Gurugram, March 6

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A day after the arrest of Sector 90 restaurant’s manager for negligently serving “dry ice”, the Gurugram administration has issued special standard operating procedures (SOPs) to all restaurants. The administration has ordered the eateries to strictly adhere to these SOPs.

DC Nishant Yadav, in his latest orders, has asked the restaurants not to just work on proper storage and handling of ingredients like dry ice or liquid nitrogen, but also sensitise the staff to handling and differentiating the same.

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The restaurants have also been asked to work on offering packed or covered mouth fresheners to avoid the similar incident in future.

“These days, restaurants handle a variety of ingredients and chemicals, which may or may not be directly involved in cooking. These are hazardous and the restaurants need to have proper SOPs to store and handle these items. Each staff member should be made aware of these ingredients so that the similar incident is not repeated,” said Yadav, while speaking to The Tribune.

The restaurants have been asked to clearly display every ingredient on the menu that is used in food, especially cocktails, in which these ingredients are used to for special effects.

Sources said the waitress who served the dry ice to five customers has reportedly confessed that there was no ulterior motive as she mistook it as a mouth freshening mint.

This is not for the time that a city restaurant has come under scanner. In 2017, a businessman from Delhi had to get almost half of his stomach removed as he ingested liquid nitrogen.

The five customers, who consumed it, started vomiting blood and are under treatment now. The police have arrested the manager of the café, Laforestta, in Sector 90. A case under Sections 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC was registered at the Kherki Daula police station.

What is dry ice

Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is used to preserve food or create fog effect. With a temperature of -78°C, which is much colder than the freezing point of water, any kind of its direct exposure – touching, inhalation, or consumption – leads to severe health risks. If swallowed by mistake, dry ice can cause a health emergency, leading to issues like frostbite, breathlessness, burns to mouth, vomiting etc.

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