A cafe in Pyatigorsk has been suspended for 80 days following a mass poisoning.
Rospotrebnadzor has identified violations of sanitary and epidemiological regulations at a café in Pyatigorsk, where 30 people were poisoned. The café's operations have been suspended for 80 days.
As reported by "Caucasian Knot," 59 of the 70 people who sought medical attention after visiting the café in Pyatigorsk have been hospitalized. Another 11 victims have been sent for outpatient treatment.
On May 30, the first nine victims were hospitalized with acute intestinal infection. All of them had visited the same café, and its operations have been suspended. The Investigative Committee has opened a case for violating sanitary and epidemiological regulations, which, through negligence, resulted in mass illness or poisoning of people (Article 236 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory heard a case of an administrative offense under Article 6.6 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses (violation of sanitary and epidemiological requirements for organizing public catering).
Rospotrebnadzor identified violations of sanitary and epidemiological regulations that create a risk of the emergence and spread of infectious diseases and poisoning.
The court ordered the temporary suspension of the cafe's operations for 80 days, the joint press service of the courts of the Stavropol Territory reported.