The Ras Al Khaimah municipality has committed food establishments to nine preventive requirements to maintain the safety of consumers, and closed 20 food establishments (restaurants, groceries, cafeterias, and kitchens) for violation, from the beginning of the application of precautionary measures, last March, until the beginning of this month.
The director of the municipal public health department, Shaima Al Tunaiji, told «Emirates Today» that the inspection campaigns carried out by the department on food establishments, since last March until the beginning of this month, resulted in the closure of 20 food establishments, including restaurants, groceries, cafeterias and kitchens, as a result Failure to adhere to the facilities and personal hygiene of workers, failure to adhere to keeping foodstuffs at the required temperature, failure to adhere to the requirements for storing and preserving foodstuffs, and failure to comply with issuing the required permits and certificates.
She pointed out that the municipality imposed nine health, preventive and environmental requirements on food establishments, to preserve the safety of consumers, and to ensure the continued operation of the facilities in an environment free of health problems, as it was obligated to apply the highest standards of cleaning and disinfection within the facility and its facilities and surfaces and environmental sterilization effectively for the facility's facilities, and commitment Providing a sufficient number of hand sanitizers in separate places, and emphasizing the need to wash and sterilize hands continuously by workers. Al-Tunaiji explained that the employees of the facilities were instructed on the importance of adhering to personal hygiene and providing its requirements, such as masks, gloves, headgear and half-cover for single-use, and documenting cleaning and disinfection operations in cleaning records, while mentioning the name and focus of the material used for disinfection, which must be approved by the authorities The country’s competent.
She stated that among the conditions are the use of cups and tools for single use when providing food and beverages to customers, and not to allow entry to any employee or customer showing symptoms of colds, coughs or respiratory diseases, in addition to conducting a daily check of the temperatures of workers and visitors, and examining all workers to ensure that no Infection with Corona virus, returning them to work after the results appear, and directing workers in the event of symptoms of respiratory infection to the nearest health center and not to work.
The inspection campaigns carried out by the "department" on food establishments, since last March.