The Food Safety Department on Tuesday launched its new food inspection rating system with colour-coded cards that tell diners how eateries in Dubai fared in food safety checks.
The Food Safety Department on Tuesday launched its new food inspection rating system with colour-coded cards that tell diners how eateries in Dubai fared in food safety checks.
Restaurants in Dubai will have to display their grading from the food inspectors.
Eateries will also be given coloured stickers to mark their achievements, or the lack of it.
Green is ‘pass’,
Yellow for ‘conditional pass’
Red is for ‘fail’.
The green sticker shows the thumbs-up sign, and indicates everything is of top quality and safe to consume, while the yellow sign shows the eatery has committed two violations and would need a review by the food inspectors within a specific time so that “corrective action” has been carried out.
The red sticker shows that the eatery has recorded “critical violations” that could cause a direct impact on food safety.
It suggests immediate “corrective action” that need to be sent to the municipality within a stipulated time.
Green is for "no violations", and suggests it has no impact on human health. The yellow implies some procedures have gone out of control. And, red indicates some procedures need to be stopped, and revised.
If a restaurant gets green, it doesn’t mean they can rest on their laurels. If we find a violation, they could slip down, and get a yellow sticker.
It also motivates the ones with the yellow sticker and red to move up the ranks if they showed improvement.”
The colour stickers, will help consumers be more aware, and lead to good public health.
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