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Title: Current issues of Food Safety in UAE


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What are the Issues?
  • Growing Food Trade and Emerging Pathogens.
  • Diversity of Population.
  • Large turnover of employees in food industry due
    to sudden growth.
  • Difficulty in providing trainings to food
    handlers due to language barriers.
  • Lack of Food Safety Awareness among public.

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  • Media does not contribute much to increase
    awareness and provide right information and role
    of the media is not defined.
  • Lack of research and Development in Food Safety
    in the region.
  • Shortage of Competent Food Safety Professionals.
  • Lack of Data on the prevalence of Foodborne
    Diseases.
  • Lack of coordination between different
    Authorities and organizations that are involved
    in gathering data regarding foodborne illnesses.
  • Dependence on External data.

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Issues of the Day
  • 1. Large turnover of employees in food industry
    due to sudden growth
  • ? Food handled by untrained people in small
    restaurants and cafeterias
  • 2. Media does not contribute much to increase
    awareness and provide right information
  • ? Role of the media is not defined
  • 3. Lack of Food Safety Awareness among public
  • 4. Shortage of Competent Food Safety
    Professionals

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Issue 1
  • Large turnover of employees in food industry due
    to sudden growth
  • - Food handled by untrained people in small
    restaurants and cafeterias

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What is the definition of Food Handlers?
  • Any person who directly handles packaged or
    unpackaged food, food equipment and utensils, or
    food contact surfaces and is therefore expected
    to COMPLY with food hygiene requirements


  • Codex Alimentarius


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General personal hygiene of food handlers
  • The law requires a high standard of personal
    cleanliness for everyone working in a food
    establishment
  • Sickness
  • Protective over clothing
  • Hand washing
  • Jewellery and cosmetics
  • Eating and drinking

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Food Handler Standard
RECOMMENDED INTERNATIONAL CODE OF PRACTICE
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF FOOD HYGIENE CAC/RCP
1-1969, Rev. 4-20031
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Food handlers in U.A.E.
  • The majority of food handlers in U.A.E. they are
    in the category of read and write only with no
    qualification.
  • Most of food handlers working in the small
    restaurants and cafeterias as a TEMPORARY job not
    more than one year.
  • Most of them have little information about food
    safety.

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  • The majority of them do not wearing protecting
    clothes when they come into direct contact with
    food (Aprons, gloves, head covers).
  • Most of food handlers working in the small
    restaurants and cafeterias are washing their
    hands BEFORE they handling the food.
  • Most of them washing their hand with soap and
    water, HOWEVER, some of them they wash with water
    only.


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  • Most of them also aware of inform the boss in
    case of sickness. And some of them they are
    IGNORANT.
  • Their general information about Personal hygiene,
    holding temperature, serving temperature, storage
    condition, raw and cooked food are very POOR.
  • Some BAD practices were noticed during
    preparation, handling and serving food.

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Pictures of the Day
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Issue 2
  • Media does not contribute much to increase
    awareness and provide right information
  • - Role of the media is not defined

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  • Newspapers
  • - Al Ittihad
  • - Albayan
  • - Alkhaleej
  • - Khaleej Times
  • - Al Ain Times
  • - Al fajr
  • - Arab News
  • A survey was conducted by college of Food and
    Agriculture (UAE University) students to evaluate
    the contribution of news papers in increase the
    food safety awareness among public

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  • Most of journalists find that the food safety
    awareness among the public is GOOD.
  • Most of them publish news about food poisoning or
    bad practices in restaurants and food service
    establishments WEEKLY.
  • The majority of the journalists get the
    information about outbreaks and bad restaurants
    practices by them SELF.


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  • HOWEVER, some food control authorities provide
    the journalist with updated information about
    food outbreaks MONTHLY.
  • The majority of the journalists evaluated the
    food control authorities in area of providing the
    information regarding food outbreaks as NOT
    SUPPORTIVE.
  • Journalists DISAGREE that medias not participate
    in raising awareness and not giving the correct
    information to the public.


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Why?
  • Ignorance of the public regarding any article
    related to the food and safety and awareness.
  • Journalists duties is to publish what information
    they have, and the food control authorities
    should help in publish the correct information.
  • Journalists are not expertise's in food safety so
    lots of help needed from the food safety
    specialist.

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Why?
  • The lack of the communication between the media,
    food control authorities and the food expertise's
    effect in the public awareness.
  • Most of the news paper has cretin pages for
    health and food safety every week to raise the
    awareness through the public.

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How can the media raise the awareness among the
public in the area of food safety?
  • Food safety is responsibility of every one,
    media, consumer and authorities should
    cooperative with each other
  • - Food authorities provide correct
    information
  • - Media publish the correct information
  • - Consumer not to be ignorant
  • Provide the medias with all updated information
    and recent researches.

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  • Increase the numbers of articles related to the
    food safety.
  • Use simple information to reach the consumer at
    all levels.
  • Find out the consumer need and do more search and
    update them with finding.
  • TRANSPARENCY is very important between the food
    control authorities, media and the public.

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  • Establish PROGRAM between the authorities and the
    media to reach the goal in public awareness.
  • The published information should focus in
    awareness not marketing.
  • Daily update information to the public and let
    them aware of any food poising occur and who is
    responsible for it.
  • Focus in the bad practices done by the CONSUMER
    him self because of lack of the awareness.

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News of the Day
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Issue 3
  • Lack of Food Safety Awareness among public
  • A survey was conducted by college of Food and
    Agriculture (UAE University) students to evaluate
    food safety information among the students and
    employees in UAE university

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  • 90 of them DAILY eat outside the house.
  • 58 of them NOT washing their hand BEFORE their
    meal when they eating outside. And 20 using
    HAND SANITAIZER.
  • The majority of people mixed up between food
    safety and NUTRITION (Calories, Fruits and
    vegetable, Protein and carbohydrate, Vitamins,
    Diet).
  • Most of them aware of food poising BUT they dont
    have any clue about any bacteria causing food
    poisoning.

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  • 77 of the surveyed people DONT take any action
    or complain if they noticed any bad food
    practices by food handlers.
  • Majority of people look over the EXPIRATION DAY
    of the products (68). Some of them they dont
    give any attention to the labels (32).
  • Large number of E mail that give information
    about food led the public to be more aware and
    ask for more information.
  • 90 of the people think that the food control
    authorities in the country doing their job
    properly regarding the food issues, HOWEVERE,
    they think that we are in the early stage and we
    will reach the EXCELLENT one day.

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Issue 4
  • Shortage of Competent Food Safety Professionals
  • - Food Safety is still in its early stage
  • - We need people with expertise in
    different aspects of food safety
  • ? UAE University 40 students Graduate every year
  • ? Sharjah University 10 inspectors graduate
    every year

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Responsibility of Food Safety
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