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Tribune News Network
Doha
The authorities have stepped up inspection of food establishments, especially hypermarkets, food and bottled water factories, across the country to ensure the implementation of precautionary and preventive measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
“The recent weeks have seen an intensification of inspection of food establishments. The campaign aimed at educating food establishments with preventive measures to limit the spread of the virus, through the application of a number of health requirements in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO),” Sawsan al Bakram, Director of the Food Safety Department at the Ministry of Public Health, told Qatar TV.
She said these instructions were issued in the form of official circulars addressed to the officials of food establishments in addition to preparing many explanatory methods such as posters and instruction manuals in three different languages and distributing them and making sure of their application in a way that ensures food safety.
She said the work was divided between the Ministry of Municipality Environmental and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).
She said focus of the Ministry of Public Health is on hypermarkets and consumer complexes. The number of consumer complexes inspected by the MoPH has reached 120 so far. “The MoPH is also inspecting factories located in the Industrial Area where more than 50 factories have been covered. Inspection is now being carried out in factories located in the closed part of the Industrial Area,” she added.
The Food Safety Department director said the focus is on food establishments to ensure implementation of the required preventive measures such as checking the body temperature of workers, ensuring the workers wear gloves and face masks and the need to provide alcohol-based sanitizers in the various sections of the facility.
The focus is also on ensuring food outlets carry out disinfection work on common surfaces that can transmit infection in addition to ensuring that all sections, including bathrooms, are cleaned, she added.
She said the food establishments have been urged to immediately contact the hotline in the event of any worker showing symptoms of COVID-19 infection.
Doha
The authorities have stepped up inspection of food establishments, especially hypermarkets, food and bottled water factories, across the country to ensure the implementation of precautionary and preventive measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
“The recent weeks have seen an intensification of inspection of food establishments. The campaign aimed at educating food establishments with preventive measures to limit the spread of the virus, through the application of a number of health requirements in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO),” Sawsan al Bakram, Director of the Food Safety Department at the Ministry of Public Health, told Qatar TV.
She said these instructions were issued in the form of official circulars addressed to the officials of food establishments in addition to preparing many explanatory methods such as posters and instruction manuals in three different languages and distributing them and making sure of their application in a way that ensures food safety.
She said the work was divided between the Ministry of Municipality Environmental and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).
She said focus of the Ministry of Public Health is on hypermarkets and consumer complexes. The number of consumer complexes inspected by the MoPH has reached 120 so far. “The MoPH is also inspecting factories located in the Industrial Area where more than 50 factories have been covered. Inspection is now being carried out in factories located in the closed part of the Industrial Area,” she added.
The Food Safety Department director said the focus is on food establishments to ensure implementation of the required preventive measures such as checking the body temperature of workers, ensuring the workers wear gloves and face masks and the need to provide alcohol-based sanitizers in the various sections of the facility.
The focus is also on ensuring food outlets carry out disinfection work on common surfaces that can transmit infection in addition to ensuring that all sections, including bathrooms, are cleaned, she added.
She said the food establishments have been urged to immediately contact the hotline in the event of any worker showing symptoms of COVID-19 infection.
She said food delivering companies and establishments are also required to follow the set guidelines.
