Dubai Municipality decided to close 240 food establishments, due to violations related to non-compliance with the precautionary measures set by the health authorities in the state to confront the spread of the new "Kurna" virus as a benefit - 19, confirming the implementation of daily inspection campaigns to ensure that all institutions adhere to the controls set by the municipality.
The municipality’s food inspection director, Sultan Al-Taher, confirmed to “Emirates Today,” that the municipality’s inspectors deal with violations with strict procedures, without compromise.
He added that since April 27, the municipality implemented 3,307 inspection visits, which showed that 93% of them adhere to specific procedures and controls, and 7% of them violated due to non-compliance with precautionary standards, noting that the total food establishments in Dubai is about 18 thousand establishments.
Al-Taher added that «the decisions to close were due to the lack of commitment to the precautionary measures of the Corona virus, which are related to wearing masks, crowding, non-spacing for more than two meters, non-compliance with tables to sit at 30% of the institution’s area, and taking into account the spacing of tables more than four square meters between Each table and the other, and not to disinfect and sterilize food establishments by companies approved by the municipality.
He continued: «During the inspection visits, the municipality inspectors check the daily follow-up records of workers’ health, record sterilization and disinfection operations, in addition to ensuring that food safety requirements are applied to food during receipt, preparation, storage, display at healthy temperatures, and the application of hygiene and sterilization procedures, to prevent non-occurrence Reciprocal pollution and pest control.
Al-Taher pointed out that the municipality is auditing all food establishments in the emirate with different activities, such as restaurants, cafeterias, cafes that provide food, groceries, supermarkets, and bakeries. It also inspects and monitors delivery cars, to ensure they are sterilized, maintain food safety procedures after each order, and change delivery workers to the muzzle and gloves after each order.
Sterilization of 1338 farms and estate in 16 districts in Dubai
Dubai Municipality conducted an extensive sterilization campaign, which included 1,338 farms and manor in 16 Dubai districts, and sensitized 5776 workers.
“Our comprehensive plan for sterilization operations throughout Dubai completely, and educating the various authorities about the necessary precautionary measures, in addition to a wide range of other services that we provide in the same context, comes within the framework of the overall plan of the Dubai government to counter this,” said the Director General of Dubai Municipality, Daoud Al Hajri. The exceptional circumstance, to ensure the health and safety of society, which occupies an advanced position on the agenda of government priorities ».
The Director of Health and Safety Department in Dubai Municipality, Dr. Naseem Muhammad Rafie said: “The sterilization campaign included identifying the targeted areas, farms and singles, and forming field work teams with five work teams that include four monitors and 10 workers, where the teams carried out the spraying of disinfectants and sterilizers, in addition to educating workers Farms and singles.
She added: “The campaign included sterilizing 1338 farms and manor in 16 regions of the emirate, and sensitizing 5776 workers in those farms and singles, and that the total sterilizers that were used after the mitigation amounted to 41 thousand and 300 liters,” noting that “the sterilization process was carried out by specialists, so that Safety guidelines, product use method, dilution and mixing ratio are followed in accordance with the safety and efficacy requirements approved to ensure safe use.
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