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Eid Al Fitr 2021: Dubai to step up inspections of eateries, public kitchens
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The most common violation during the holy month was the accumulation of foodstuffs due to high demand.
Dubai Municipality will intensify inspection campaigns in the period leading up to Eid al-Fitr.
The authority intends to target food establishments, especially confectionery shops, roasteries, bakeries, sweets and chocolate factories, and public kitchens.
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This campaign falls within the Municipality’s efforts to ensure the best practices are applied during the preparation, storage, display and transportation to prevent contamination of products (especially cross-contamination).
Dubai: Dubai Municipality has asked shoppers and employees at food establishments to strictly follow the COVID-19 safety measures in the days running up to Eid-Al-Fitr.
The warning comes as the civic body on Wednesday announced that it would intensify inspection on food establishments during the period leading up to Eid Al Fitr.
Apart from the eateries, the inspections will also cover confectionery shops, roasteries, bakeries, sweets and chocolate factories, and popular kitchens.
Inspection campaign
Sultan Ali Al Taher, head of Food Inspection Section at Dubai Municipality, said the intensified campaigns aim to ensure that during the preparation, making, storage, display and transportation processes these establishments apply the best practices that prevent contamination of these products, especially cross-contamination with workers and equipment.
Dubai clarifies rules surrounding dining outdoors in Ramadan
Dining outdoors in Ramadan is not permitted…
Ramadan is a little different this year since Dubai authorities removed the need for restaurants to apply for permits to serve food during Ramadan fasting hours. With this, Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) also withdrew the requirement to place screens and curtains over mall courts and restaurants.
This announcement raised questions around whether non-muslims can now eat and drink outdoors as normal. However, Dubai authorities have clarified to
Gulf News that this is not the case.
“Outdoor seating is not allowed during fasting hours. Delivery of food can be continued as usual,” said Mohammed Ali Rashed Lootah, CEO of the Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in Dubai Economy.
There are restaurants that serve food along the beaches and on terraces. Additionally, many restaurants have outside seating. Questions were raised if these restaurants are allowed to serve food outside their walled premises out in the open during fasting hours in Ramadan.
Senior officials at Dubai Economy and Dubai Municipality have clarified to Gulf News that outdoor dining at eateries continue to be banned during fasting hours in Ramadan. “Outdoor seating is not allowed during fasting hours. Delivery of food can be continued as usual,” said Mohammed Ali Rashed Lootah, CEO of the Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in Dubai Economy.