Food spoilage drops 73% in the UAE

The Dubai Municipality was able to help the state reduce food spoilage by 73%, according to a report in FoodDubai.com, where Food Safety Department head of food trade control section Dr. Essam Al Hashimi was quoted as saying the UAE cut down spoilage to 3,670 tons during 2017 versus 13,586 tons in 2016.

 

Combined efforts led to better applications of practices in food trade control. 

 

“The unprecedented achievement in reducing food wastage has been the result of developing and implementing a series of alternative solutions to avoid the food getting damaged. We have carried out recycling of 1,953 tons of food and 1,426 tons of food was transferred to the UAE Food Bank during the year 2017,” he told FoodDubai.com.

 

He also said the quantity of food shipments made in 2017 increased substantially to 351,660 from 345,291 in recorded in 2016, while the number of food categories increased to 633,850 from 532,128.

The Emerati recorded a significant increase in the number of food companies registered in 2017, at 15,973 from 12,657 in 2016. Read the report