Food samples collected from an eatery at Cheruvathur in Kasaragod at Kerala following the death of a girl due to food poisoning.
It revealed the presence of salmonella and shigella bacteria.
Shigella is a bacterium that belongs to the enterobacter family — a group of bacteria that reside in the intestine, not all of which cause disease in humans.
There are four types of Shigella bacteria that affect humans — Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, and Shigella dysenteriae.
The fourth type causes the most severe disease because of the toxin it produces.
In the first phase, the scheme would be launched in some Corporations, municipalities and villages.