Enhancing food safety requires a mixture of carrots and sticks, persuasion and punishment.

Reinforcing positive behavior helps too.

Dubai Municipality has recently established an award for eateries that excel in measures and practices to ensure food safety, informed Khalid Shareef, Director, food Control department at the civic body.

“This award, we think, is first of its kind in the region. We aim to upgrade the levels of food safety prevailing in the establishments by creating an opportunity for healthy competition,” he further said.