Dubai Municipality monitored and inspected during the period from January 1 to April 30 this year 2020 on 2 million and 653 thousand and 400 tons of imported food, which includes 99 thousand and 590 imported food consignments and 589 thousand and 570 food products.
Iman Al Bastaki, Director of the Municipality’s Food Safety Department, said: “Dubai Municipality works around the clock at all of the emirates’s outlets to control imported food, as the figures show the stability of food import, in addition to ensuring diversity in importing foodstuffs to the local market, with the aim of enabling all consumers to obtain Their needs of all food items and components, and we have simplified the procedures for importing food to facilitate the movement of food trade during the current period.
She added: "The highest levels of food control are applied to ensure their safety and compliance with the requirements set by the department, as efforts are made in the department through the development of smart systems in this field, such as the" Food Watch "platform that enables the ability to track food by checking the ingredients Nutritional information for each product, as the platform contributes to facilitating the exchange of information between control agencies and food establishments, service providers to these institutions and consumers, through the use of smart digital control and data analysis.
It is worth noting that the statistics for the first quarter of last year 2019 indicated the import of about 113,237 food consignments, 648,000 and 619 food products, with a total amount of 2 million, 471,989 tons of food.