Dubai Municipality launches Qoot service for food sample testing

  • Date: 06-Jan-2021
  • Source: The UAE News
  • Sector:Industrial
  • Country:UAE
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Dubai Municipality launches Qoot service for food sample testing

The UAE News report: In an effort to preserve the safety and health of community members, Dubai Municipality has launched Qoot, a service that offers food sample collection and tests on the same site, by adopting the latest technology, to ensure fast results with high accuracy, in addition to enabling the customer to check the quality and safety of food products to ensure that it is free from disease-causing bacteria and harmful chemicals, and that it conforms to the approved local and international specifications, and immediate detection of food-borne pathogens.

“This service is provided to many groups, namely individuals, business sector such as food traders and food preparation establishments, and the governmental and semi-governmental sectors such as the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, Customs, Ministry of Health, Dubai Police and the Armed Forces, in addition to internal and external partners,” said Khalid Sharif Al Awadhi, CEO, Health, Safety and Environment Sector in Dubai Municipality.

“The aim is to develop a service for testing food samples and activate the Municipality's legislative and supervisory role to finish testing samples within the specified time. Therefore, a smart link