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Eateries flouting standards

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By Staff Reporter — MUSCAT: March 18 - To ensure food safety standards at all levels, Muscat Municipality has conducted regular checks on restaurants and cafes across the capital. One such raid has resulted in the closure of a few restaurants and coffee shops for violations in Muttrah. As per details provided by the civic authority, inspection of over 100 coffee shops recently, over 33 of them were fined for violations and complete closure in some cases. The civic body has started campaigns for the employees of coffee shops and urged them to attend courses at their time of convenience.


A senior official at Muscat Municipality earlier told the Observer that food safety violations are more serious with smaller restaurants and coffee shops as their employees are not qualified enough to carry out tasks entrusted to them. He said efforts are on to find a solution to this problem and make sure that all food handlers are qualified enough to work in restaurants. He said that while inspections are routine ones and we do not want the situation to reach alarming levels in the future. More importantly, it is very important to keep food in a safe place and also develop a food safety culture at all levels.


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