The Ministry of Health and Community Protection confirmed that its hospitals received 17 cases of food poisoning during the past year. She confirmed that bacterial infection is one of the main causes of poisoning.

Dubai Municipality and the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) reported that they had strict restaurants to ensure food safety. Al-Itamar Al-Youm received complaints about food corruption in a restaurant, causing the emergency department's patients to enter the hospital. The newspaper also received complaints that show a decline in attention to health standards in different restaurants.

In a survey, the newspaper reported restaurant worker practices that increase the risk of poisoning, such as leaving long-term food residues on tables before they are removed, mosquitoes in dining halls, lack of air conditioners in some restaurants, and only use of fans, Foods.

She called on restaurant doctors to abide by safety requirements and circulate stakeholders to reduce the risk of bacterial food poisoning, which puts consumers' lives at risk because of serious diseases that start with severe diarrhea and may end in cancer and liver failure.

They stressed the need to provide a healthy environment for restaurants, with the commitment of workers to specific hygiene standards, and to ensure the safety of materials used in cooking.

They said that the high dependence on fast food restaurants carries several risks, notably weight gain, intestinal infections, and may result in bacterial poisoning due to poor conservation, or the use of unhealthy materials in cooking, especially during the summer, which require exceptional treatment with food.

According to a report issued by the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA), "food poisoning" is a disease caused by contaminated food. Symptoms appear within a few hours to days and may last for weeks.

The agency pointed out that the symptoms and severity of infection, and the time required for the emergence of poisoning, vary depending on the causes of poisoning, and the amount of food eaten by the human. The symptoms are usually high fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach and intestinal cramps, body aches and headaches. In some cases, symptoms manifest as paralysis of the nervous system, such as speech blurred vision and blurred vision.

The newspaper received a complaint from a person who confirmed poisoning his wife after eating a salty fish meal, bought from a famous shop and restaurant in the area of ​​Abohail.

He confirmed that his wife felt serious symptoms after eating the meal, such as not being able to see things clearly, dry her throat, and difficulty breathing. She took her to Rashid Hospital, where she underwent tests and was transferred to the emergency department and then to the internal medicine department. To the Department of Critical Care, and then to the Department of the heart, where she was examined, and turned to the Department of nerves, and found the presence of nerve disorder is the reason for the inability to move the limbs, and because doctors doubt poisoning, was transferred to the Department of toxins, Several, and found to be infected with bacterial poisoning, as a result of fish meal.

The husband demanded strict control of the meals offered by restaurants, or sold by shops, because the lack of safety threatens the lives of consumers.

The child and his sister were poisoned by a continuous and dry vomiting, which led to the death of the girl and the introduction of the child to the intensive care unit at Al-Qasimi Hospital. Tests and cardiac imaging showed an inflammation that led to the relaxation of the heart muscle and the death of the child.

A three-year-old Indian child died of food poisoning, according to a forensic report. The mother and his older brother were poisoned because the family bought meals from a restaurant in the Abu Ghagara area.

Dr. Nada Al Mulla, a family medicine specialist at the Dubai Health Authority, warned against relying on fast food restaurants as a main source of food, stressing the need to choose restaurants that are highly popular, with a focus on healthy items of meals.

She pointed out that clinics and hospitals receive cases of health problems resulting from eating in restaurants, the most prominent intestinal diseases and bacterial poisoning due to poor food preservation, or failure to follow the standards of health during the preparation of the meal.

High cholesterol and weight gain are among the main risks facing fast-food consumers, she said, stressing the need to take into account the nutritional value of the meal before ingestion, and the number of calories it contains, especially in children.

"Fast food has become part of the everyday lifestyle of many members of the community," said Mulla. "It is imperative to choose restaurants that are so popular that they do not have to keep food for long periods of time and select foods without ingredients that cause various health problems.

The director of the Department of Clinical Nutrition at the Dubai Health Authority, Wafaa Ayesh, said that intestinal confusion, acidity, GERD and stomach ulcers are health problems that may result from excessive reliance on unhealthy fast food restaurants. The selection of restaurants with good reputation, and the quality of balanced healthy food. She called for linking the employment of new people in restaurants to undergo certain medical examinations, to ensure that there are no health problems can be transferred to customers.

A guide issued by Dubai Municipality stressed the need for restaurant workers to adhere to personal hygiene, wear proper clothing, avoid touching food with bare hands, use appropriate tools, and should not be infected with foodborne diseases, and stop working if they have open wounds or ulcers , And if covered with bandages should be clean, and prevent water leakage.

He stressed that the water used for drinking and preparation of food from an approved source, and purified when necessary, in addition to the equipment used in cooking well designed, and made from materials easy to clean, and keep food areas away from smells and condensation of steam, and the need to free the restaurant and the rest of the institutions Food from insects and rodents, sterilizing contact surfaces for food, keeping hot food at 60 ° C, washing and sterilizing vegetables and fruits, before serving to customers.

According to the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, food poisoning includes types of microbial poisoning, microbial poisoning, chemical poisoning, metal poisoning caused by acidic food storage, fruit juices in cadmium cans, poisoning by household cleaning and sterilization, Which are stored in the wrong way with the food, or as a result of the residues of these substances on pots and cooking equipment, because they are not washed well with water, in addition to poisonings with food additives, and others.

The device stressed the need to comply with safety requirements to reduce bacterial poisoning, indicating washing hands with water and soap well before the preparation of food and after eating, and not to repeat the use of gloves designed for one use, as reuse leads to pollution.

The food should be kept at a temperature of 63 ° C or higher, at which the microbial growth stops, taking care of cleaning and disinfection of the kitchen appliances, washing them after the end of the work and after using them in the processing of raw foods (such as meat and poultry). Transmission of pollutants from raw materials and raw foods to cooked foods, and control of insects, rodents and flies on an ongoing basis.

Restaurants closed because of "lack of hygiene"

The Abu Dhabi Food and Safety Authority issued a decision last April to close the Meidan restaurant in the area of ​​Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi, due to the lack of commitment to clean the store and the accumulation of vegetables and food on the floor of the store. And openly.

In June, the agency closed a "restaurant and sweets" in order to commit several violations, the most important being the spread of insects and rodents in the preparation and processing areas.

Dubai Municipality and Abu Dhabi Food Control Company (ADFCA) have imposed stringent health requirements on restaurants.