With the participation of 46 inspectors through two groups
Muscat Municipality holds a course in health and safety of food
Written by: Ibrahem Al-Hosny
The Administration of Planning and Training in Muscat Municipality continues to hold the course of «Laws of Food Health and Safety» in the Municipality Building in Darsait for the employees of Municipality who work in the fields of health inspection of food establishments and general inspection departments of various administrations and directorates of Muscat Municipality. Abdul Hamid bin Abdullah Al-Ojaili; the Assistant Director at Administration of Health Affairs and Mohammed bin Said Al-Balushi; Senior Food Inspector at Administration of Health Affairs are lecturers in the course that lasts for three days.
The course run through two groups for 46 employees aims at providing the participants with the scientific and practical expertise, following the latest techniques in the field of food safety, identifying the laws and regulations related to food and inspection of food establishments, promoting the aspects of knowledge for health inspectors, and introducing them to the general principles of control methods of food industry.
The program addresses the basics of the safety of food trading, mechanisms of food poisoning « occurrence ways, reasons, and methods of protection» and analysis of Food Safety Law and Regulation of the Local Order of Public Health Protection in Muscat Municipality.
The program includes the Law and Regulation of Food Safety, the Local Order of Public Health Protection, the importance of awareness and education concerning food safety, and the role of international organizations and Muscat Municipality in this respect. The program is also about the food pollution and poisoning, food ingredients, recognition of food contaminants, sources of food pollution, methods of analyzing the food substances chemically and microbiologically, and bringing up the terms of food poisoning and diseases transferred through food. The participants are also got familiar with the health requirements of food establishments, the general methods of inspection, the requirements of public and personal hygiene, and the personal behavior of workers. During the course, the stages of health inspection, mechanism of monitoring, taking notes and writing them in a technical way, ratio system, seven rules, and methods of controlling the food safety will be indentified practically.
It is worth mentioning that tomorrow Thursday, the training works of the first group will be concluded so the training of the second group will begin in the middle of the next month for three days.