chennai a cinema theatre in tambaram has come under adverse notice of food safety officials for operating canteen without food licence and selling expired food products expired and substandard popcorn puffs and soft drinks were seized and destroyed by kancheepuram food safety department officials on tuesday complaints were received by officials on monday from people who had gone for a film show at vidya theatre in west tambaram some of them felt giddy and vomited after eating puffs sold at the theatre canteenbased on this complaint a team headed by kancheepuram designated food safety o fficer anuradha inspected the theatre and found expired products being sold none of the ingredients used to prepare popcorn or other pastry items had labels on them indicating the date of manufacture soft drink bottles and potato chips packets had no brand names or mandatory details a total of eight litres of soft drinks and 275 kg of popcorn ingredients were destroyed further inquiry revealed that the canteen didnt apply for a food safety licence and was supplying food items to three other theatres in the locality notices were issued under section 63 of the food safety and standards act 2006 they were given one weeks time to rectify and reinspection will be conducted after that said anuradha besides this four teams also inspected 122 food outlets which prepared and sold sweets for diwali of this notices were issued to 24 bakeries manufacturing units and seasonal roadside retail units for functioning at unhygienic space