Abu Dhabi: Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (EASM) has made it compulsory for bakeries and supermarkets to abide by the UAE's new standard specifications for bread from October 29.
"The new standards supplied by EASM are in light of many problems faced by the monitoring authorities and the evident inconsistency in the normal production of bread in terms of pricing, quality, use of ingredients, transportation, and packaging," said Engineer Mohammad Saleh Badri, acting director general of the authority, in a statement on Monday. "The regulations are applicable to all forms of bread, such as toast, brown, Afghani, Lebanese and Samoon."
Badri said: "All control bodies and the Ministry of Economy have been contacted ... to take all necessary procedures to implement the new standards."
