If you are consuming road-side foods or beverages this summer, be careful as the BMC health department has recorded as many as 2,384 cases of stomach-related illness since January. The experts have said the figure is likely to rise with soaring temperature in summer.

Mid-day had, on April 5, published how 77 per cent of beverage samples collected across the city by BMC failed the food safety and hygiene test and 97 per cent of the ice samples collected were found unsuitable for human consumption.