Dubai: The Food Control Department of Dubai Municipality will intensify its inspections of food establishments to ensure food safety during the month of Ramadan. The inspections will be conducted during the day until 6pm and from 8pm to 2am.
UAE | Health
Inspections on food establishments to intensify during Ramadan
Warning issued to 54 groceries in June for violating food safety norms
- By Shveta PathakStaff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 July 18, 2012
- Image Credit: Oliver Clarke/Gulf News
- Khalid Mohammad Sharif, director of Food Control Department, Dubai Municipality, holds up food safety booklets launched as part of the food safety campaign.
The department has issued a strict warning to 54 groceries for non-compliance with food safety regulations during its inspection of groceries last month.
Inspections during Ramadan will include restaurants and hotels, Ramadan tents and groceries.
“Our focus is to tell them to prepare and store food safely in adherence with the regulations. Many times groceries do not store food properly or store in excess. The inspections will ensure food safety is maintained,” said Khalid Mohammad Shareef, Head of Food Control Department, Dubai Municipality.
Groceries and traditional kitchens
The department has already started the inspection of traditional kitchens and groceries in the emirate. “We have already covered 55 kitchens in Al Quoz and Al Ghusais. In the case of groceries, of the total 1,450, we found 54 were not complying. Many were not storing food properly or switching off refrigerators to save electricity. We have told them that strict action will be taken if they fail to take corrective measures and they may face shutdown,” said Sultan Taher, Head of the Food Inspection Section.
Food safety campaign
The Food Control Department has launched ‘Safe Food Saves Food’, a food safety campaign, this Ramadan. “The Ramadan campaign addresses two important issues — food safety and food wastage. Through the campaign we will educate people and the industry on food safety and how adhering to food safety rules will help them minimise wastage,” said Bobby Krishna, Senior Food studies and Survey Officer at the department.
Under the campaign, the civic body advises everyone to follow five golden rules — planning ahead for the amount of food to be prepared, limiting the time between preparation and serving, safe transportation and storage of food and being careful to purchase safe food from authorised vendors only.
Latest news
- Tenants in DIFC zone seek uniform rent law
- Vitamin D deficienty linked to infertility
- Young woman forced into prostitution
- Honeymooners use app to trace BB owner
- Fight goes on even after double mastectomy
- Crooning glory for jobless Karachi youth
- So what happened to Timmy MacColl?
- Man faces 5 counts of car thefts
- Mariner of the Seas a class apart
- Garages move out of Abu Dhabi
- UAE stargazers to miss lunar eclipse
- New depot to transform Abu Dhabi bus service
- Kerala expats seek online platform to register
- ‘Mawaqif fined us wrongly’: Abu Dhabi residents
- Abu Dhabi watchman makes hi-tech gadgets
Community Reports
-
Buses don’t halt at bus stops being excavated
Excavation turns using public transportation into a nightmare
-
Seek solace in sarod at Madinat Theatre
Get out of the heat and into Amjad Ali Khan's upcoming sarod concert
-
Cyclists put their lives in danger
Alarming volumes of cargo totter precariously above their heads
-
Students step towards a greener planet
The students and their parents participate in a week to raise awareness about going green.
