Dubai Municipality's Food Safety Information page. Every day is "Food Safety Day" for us!
Prevent food-borne illness by being smart in choosing, buying, handling and eating food!
02/08/2017
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/hypermarkets-highlight-healthy-eating-for-kids
Dubai hypermarkets promote healthy eating for children It comes ahead of the launch of new nutrition guidelines that will ban school canteens from selling junk food.
07/05/2017
www.foodsafe.ae for latest updates on food safety in Dubai
Food Safety Dubai Municipality has put in place an effective system to ensure that the food you consume is always safe. However, we also understand the every link in the food chain from farm to fork can introduce food safety hazard.
Checkout the latest program of Dubai International Food Safety Conference www.foodsafetydubai.com
21/09/2015
19/01/2015
Dubai: The Dubai Municipality has fined 365 vehicles used for delivering cooked food and transporting raw foodstuff in the first two days of a week-long campaign targeting the “illegal and unsafe” ways in which food is delivered.
Food transport vehicles under scanner in Dubai 365 vehicles fined for transporting food in unsafe ways
27/04/2014
Sultan Al Tahir, head of food inspection section, emphasised that eggs should be stored in refrigerators all along the food chain from the farm until they are cooked.
“In the kitchen, eggs should be broken carefully in a segregated area to prevent contamination of other ready to eat food. Egg products should be cooked well to a minimum temperature of 75 degrees Celsius as per our regulations. Eggs that are stored at ambient temperatures should not be consumed and our inspectors have been instructed to discard eggs that have not been stored or cooked properly,” he said.
Keep food at appropriate temperatures to avoid food poisoning Restaurants and eateries do not handle food properly says civic body
21/08/2013
Dubai Conference program has been updated know. Register for the workshops as soon as possible!
Dubai International Food Safety Conference The Dubai International Food Safety Conference has been introduced by the Dubai Municipality to provide delegates with a good understanding of the current Food Safety issues, Food Safety Management Techniques and the best practices followed in the Food Industry. It also aims at providing up-to-date…
Download the new Food Codehttp://www.foodsafe.ae/contentfiles/uploads/Food_Code_English_interactive.pdf
What's Norovirus and how can you protect yourself from it?
http://www2.wrbl.com/news/2013/jan/25/sydney-norovirus-sweeping-the-world-78078-vi-159759/
18/11/2012
Make food safety learning a fun activity. Try shooting down bacteria for a change!
The Food Detectives Fight BAC! You should have a recent web browser (version 4 or later of Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer). Your computer also needs the Flash 6 plug-in. Click the button on the right to download, then come back to this page.
16/10/2012
Hand-washing drive: Secret of safe food - Khaleej Times For Emirates Flight Catering, one of the largest flight caterers in the world, hygienic hands of staff in Dubai means safe food to millions flying across the world.
What are food additives?
Food additive means any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself and not normally used as a typical ingredient of the food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional
addition of which to food for a technological (including organoleptic) purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result (directly or indirectly), in it or its byproducts becoming a component of or otherwise affecting the characteristics of such foods. The
term does not include contaminants or substances added to food for maintaining or improving nutritional qualities.
The use of food additives is justified only when such use has an advantage, does not present an appreciable health risk to consumers, does not mislead the consumer, and serves one or more of the technological functions set out by Codex and the needs set out from (a) through (d) below, and only where these objectives cannot be achieved by other means that are economically and technologically practicable:
a) To preserve the nutritional quality of the food; an intentional reduction in the nutritional quality of a food would be justified in the circumstances dealt with in sub-paragraph (b) and also in
other circumstances where the food does not constitute a significant item in a normal diet;
b) To provide necessary ingredients or constituents for foods manufactured for groups of consumers having special dietary needs;
c) To enhance the keeping quality or stability of a food or to improve its organoleptic properties,
provided that this does not change the nature, substance or quality of the food so as to deceive the consumer;
d) To provide aids in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, transport or
storage of food, provided that the additive is not used to disguise the effects of the use of faulty
raw materials or of undesirable (including unhygienic) practices or techniques during the course
of any of these activities.