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Primorye’s Department of Russia’s consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has begun inspections of Vladivostok’s fast food street outlets, after 34 people were hospitalized with salmonella infections after consuming shaverma at one of the local kiosks.

The infected were taken to the city’s infection hospital from March 18 to 22 with symptoms of food poisoning. All of them had bought shaverma, a doner kebab, at one street kiosk, a statement from Primorye’s Prosecutor’s Office said. Thirteen of the shaverma victims are students of Vladivostok Medical University which has the kiosk located near its doors.

The kiosk’s inspection revealed that the snack products were prepared with violations of sanitary norms and without any certificate of quality and safety. The kiosk also lacked running water and a sewage system, and its staff was not in possession of sanitary certificates. The owners did not have necessary documents for registration and for the use of the plot of land.

Rospotrebnadzor inspectors ordered the city administration to close the snack kiosk. They plan to demand that police forces perform further checks of such kiosks, a press statement from the watchdog said.

Vladivostok Prosecutor’s Office has started an administrative case, launching of a criminal case is being considered, prosecutors said.