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Everyone has a camera: Food-safety-in-Oman edition

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I’ve long been an advocate of electronics and digital monitoring for improving food safety outcomes.

Video-camera-1024x600But only with clear objectives and limits.

In Oman, cameras have been installed on a trial basis at different restaurants located at tourist spots, butcher shops and slaughterhouses in a bid to maintain hygiene standards.

“The aim is to keep an online tab on food processing,” the ministry said.

Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Shehhi, Minister of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources, said the project enjoys full confidentiality guaranteed by the laws to all of the information including visual and non-visual data of food establishments.

40 sickened: Oman restaurant workers get jail for food poisoning

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Ibri Primary Court has delivered its verdict in the case of a restaurant in Shahoom village of Ibri where 40 people complained of food poisoning.
In its judgment, the court awarded three people working in the restaurant a one-year jail term and slapped them with a fine of OMR200 for serving contaminated food that harmed the health of the consumers. The court also awarded them one-year jail term and a fine of OMR1,000 for violating the food safety law.

oman.restaurantThe court ordered them to pay OMR1,000 for violating the consumer protection law.

The court  ordered  closure of the restaurant for one year and deportation of the three accused.

The accused also have to pay all the legal expenses.

The incident dated back to last August when 40 people fell sick after reportedly consuming contaminated food from the restaurant in the village. 

When Times of Oman contacted Naser Al Shoomi, who recovered from the recent food poisoning, he welcomed the verdict saying it would serve as a deterrent for other restaurants.