7.9 million tons and 3 billion meals, the volume of food traded in Dubai annually

Dubai Municipality statistics revealed that the volume of food traded in the Emirate of Dubai annually amounts to 7.9 million tons of food, and 3 billion meals are consumed by 3.3 million residents and 20 million tourists.

This came during the municipality's launch of the "My Food" initiative, which comes within the framework of the department's embodiment of its efforts to promote digital transformation in its systems and services related to food safety, and automation to keep pace with technical development in this field, in addition to saving time and effort for customers and ensuring the provision of safety management services. Food according to the highest and best international standards.

The municipality confirmed that the preventive food safety program is based on ensuring the provision of safe and healthy food that is produced and traded in more than 20,000 licensed food establishments in Dubai by obtaining the necessary permits before engaging in food activities, enhancing the knowledge efficiency of food handlers and qualifying them in the field of food safety, and using the means Transporting safe and certified food, which contributed to achieving a level of confidence and happiness of service customers by 96.5%.

A food initiative depends on the digitization and automation of a number of basic operations in the food safety system, which were carried out through records and paper documents carried out by more than 20,000 food establishments in the Emirate of Dubai. The initiative aims to enhance the satisfaction of food safety management customers by providing integrated services with the concerned authorities. Which saves the customer time and effort and reduces the cost of providing the service, in addition to contributing to reducing the environmental impact by not consuming paper, which contributes to enhancing food safety in the Emirate of Dubai.

The "My Food" initiative achieved digital transformation, for all steps of the process of managing food permits, training, issuing certificates, and approving food transport means. The electronic link and smart tracking between the concerned systems contributed to saving 75% of the time it takes to obtain permits and training services that affect more than 300, 000 workers in the food sector in addition to providing and analyzing big data to make appropriate predictive decisions.

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