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717 food safety violations in Al Rayyan

The Al Rayyan Municipality has registered 717 health safety violations during the first 10 days of  Ramadan. Its officials said they had carried out 286 inspections, covering all the food establishments in the municipality area.

Local Arabic daily Arrayah quoted a municipality official  as saying that the violations varied  from employing workers whose  health certificates had expired to lack of personal hygiene, dirty utensils, unclean buildings and failure to satisfy  health requirements relating to storage, processing and presentation of food  in addition to selling of expired  items.

The official said that a number of Garangao gift bags were among those seized during inspections. Twenty samples were referred to the central laboratory for tests.

He said that four restaurants were ordered to be closed for a month. Eleven violations were registered for selling expired items under Law number 8 of 1990. The eateries had temporary licences to provide kebab, samosa and other items during
Ramadan .

The official said the inspection teams had seized the carcasses of four sheep from a butchery as they were found to be infected with diseases. The inspectors also destroyed 1,500 kilos  of processed meat, including liver, beef, kidney, heart and minced  meat, which were found unfit for human consumption.

He added that the municipal officials inspected  restaurants that provide Iftar meals to charity organisations.

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