India, July 27 -- Bengaluru's famed restaurant chain, Empire, is under fire after its chicken kebabs from the Gandhinagar outlet were found to be unsafe for consumption, according to a report by NDTV.

The controversy erupted after the State Food Laboratory at the Public Health Institute tested food samples collected during a routine inspection by Food Safety Officer Ambarish Gowda on June 27. Gowda had collected four 500-gram packets, totalling 2 kilograms, of chicken kebabs from Empire's Anand Rao Circle branch.

According to the lab report dated July 11, the kebabs failed to comply with the safety norms outlined in the Food Product Standards & Food Additives Regulations, 2011. As a result, the food was officially deemed "unsafe for hum...