ABU DHABI – The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) has confirmed that Abu Dhabi’s markets are completely free of chocolate products manufactured by Ferrero, suspected of being linked to food poisoning in a number of European countries due to salmonella infections. According to ADAFSA, it jumped to action as soon as it received notification from the European…
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Dubai Municipality’s Food Safety Department has revealed that its digital initiative, ‘My Food’, is ensuring the safety of 3 billion meals, 8 million tonnes of food annually consumed by residents and tourists. According to the department, more than 300,000 people within the city help transport, store, prepare, cook, serve and deliver food to the doorsteps of…
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Cabinet has amended the requirement for nutritional labelling under the standard No. UAE.S 5034: 2018 (Nutritional labelling of pre-packed products as traffic light colors) from mandatory to voluntary, in line with the government’s focus on supporting the performance and competitiveness of the industrial sector and easing procedures. Under the standard, which…
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Dubai Municipality has launched the star-rated system at the 15th Dubai International Food Safety Conference (DIFSC), saying it will assess and award restaurants based on how well they apply methods that promote the use of safe, healthy and high-quality food. Restaurants in the emirate will be reviewed and honored annually for their efforts towards implementing sustainable…
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) has begun the final assessment of the Food Safety Index for The Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), where various local and federal government agencies related to the Food Safety Index participate in the assessment. The index…
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UAE – The corona pandemic has focalized the world’s attention on food supplies specifically in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which imports about 90 per cent of all its food. In the previous year the pandemic coerced the UAE to assess its food supply chain after the country experienced some initial disruption. The Minister of State for Food Security, Mariam…
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