32 food outlets closed due to violations
The Doha Municipality closed down 32 food outlets over the past four months for violating the law, a senior official has said.
Municipal inspectors raided 11,000 shops during the period and detected 768 violations, of which 23 were related to the food monitoring law.
The remaining 745 cases involved violation of commercial rules, according to Mohammed Ahmed Al Sayed, head of health monitoring unit at Doha Municipality.
He said the municipality is now planning to increase the number of inspectors, including women. It currently has 22 women inspectors.
The official said the municipality changes inspectors frequently to avoid complaints from outlets about bias.
“An inspector will not be deployed in one area for more than two months. We also keep video records as a proof of the violations to ensure that the inspectors act fairly,” said Al Sayed.
The inspection team took 346 food samples for laboratory tests during the four months, of which 21 were found not meeting the specifications.
Republished from The Peninsula
Sulieman...you will find more good places for the soup in time to come hopefully. i am a food lover too. But when i see how some restaurants make food, i never wanna step in to that place again. anyway, good luck
@fubar ,,, Thanks, I will give it a try :O)
@BOXBE ,,, 3 peppers is for Chinese food they don't have, Tom Yum is Thai, but btw they have a very nice food
i for one am glad they're cracking down on bad food..one simply does not compromise with a customer's tummy..as a side note, its pretty sickening when people refer to women as chicks
Try 3 peppers
Did you try the Thai restaurant in Hyatt? Or outside Megamart?
@ravi-invincible ,, the soup was to die for
I am not sad because they closed the restaurant, but I am sad because I can't find another restaurant that can offer the same soup :O(
Sulieman, did the soup taste good? you cant be sad about closing a food outlet when its hygiene is not to the standard. The food outlet opposite Dodge showroom near toyota signal is also not to the standard. You feel yukky when you look at the way they make food. They wipe the dirty tables with the same cloth and keep the bread on the same table.
Good job.............
How come their customers did not feel any discrepancy in the food quality ! . ..... .................. .......... Mon , 19.05.2014 , 09.15 hrs
Very Good Job :O)
I felt sad once they closed the Thai Restaurant in Villaggio :O(
I want another place to have my delicious Tom Yum Soup