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Risk Management Approaches in GCC Countries Bobby Krishna Food Safety Specialist Food Control Deparment Dubai Muicipality Smoking vs Food Safety (US) Hospitalisation 128000 Death 3000 Illness 48 Mil Dubai: Found an insect in your

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Bobby Krishna

Food Safety Specialist Food Control Deparment Dubai Muicipality

Risk Management Approaches

in GCC Countries

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Smoking vs Food Safety (US)

Hospitalisation 128000 Death 3000 Illness 48 Mil

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Dubai: Found an insect in your greens? Do not fret – this is a normal occurrence and municipal officials have said there is no need to panic. Food experts however, have recently been looking into insects as an alternative food source and the idea of consuming houseflies, caterpillars, termites and ants is being contemplated by a number of governments. “The prospect of farms processing insects for feed might soon become a global reality due to a growing demand for sustainable feed sources,” said the report, but “consumer disgust remains one of the largest barriers to the adoption of insects as viable sources of protein in many Western countries”.

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Effective control measures?

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GCC countries- Gulf Cooperation Council

  • 6 countries have common

regulations for trade

  • Regulations are consistent

with codex standards

  • Enforcement varies
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Food Regulations

GCC Food Standards Federal standards ( eg: UAE has the Ministry of Environment and Water and Emirates Standardisation Authority Local Standards in Provinces (Emirates in UAE)

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Dubai Fact Sheet

Food Imports

  • Dubai Imports more than 10 Million Tons of Food Each

Year

  • Food Imported from more than 160 countries

Visitors

  • More than 11 million visitors in 2014
  • Steady increase in the number

Food Establishments

  • 13000 food establishments
  • 6000 food service establishments including restaurants,

cafés

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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

22-Jun 23-Jun 24-Jun 25-Jun Epi Curve

Cases

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Trace-back

All of the information related to the food item is then linked to its unique bar code Bar code system allows us to retrieve all the information related to the item by just entering the bar code in the system.

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Each food group is divided into Categories

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Recall of the entire product…

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On 18th December at 7 am, we received a call from Hospital H1 saying that

  • 5 Chinese nationals

were ill with abdominal cramps and severe diarrhea

  • they were admitted

in the hospital.

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  • A group of 25

tourists from China

  • Did not speak

English

  • Travel agent could

speak English and Chinese

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Restaurant 1 Lunch on 16 Dec Restaurant 2 Dinner on 16 Dec Hotel A Break Fast on 17 Dec Hotel B Lunch on 17 Dec ( Abu Dhabi) Hospital – H1

Emirates Flight from China

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Hotel A Dinner 16 Dec Hotel A Breakfast 17 Dec Hospital- H1 17 Dec

Afghani stan

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Evening- 19 Dec

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19 Dec

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Hotel A Break Fast on 17 Dec Cafeteria 1 Lunch on 17 Dec

Hospital – H2 on 17 Dec

Belarus

3 more cases

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Restaurant 1 Lunch on 16 Dec

Hotel B Lunch on 17 Dec

Restaurant 2 Dinner on 16 Dec

China Afghanistan Belarus 17 Dec Hotel A

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Confirmed in 3 cases

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Did the outbreak investigation end here?

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We could have reached the farm….

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Lack of laboratory support to fingerprint organisms

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Surveillance based decisions

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Challenges

  • Risk Assessment vs Risk Management
  • Lack of Food-borne disease surveillance

system – fingerprinting, whole genome sequencing

  • Food laws are not always based on current

science

  • Laws not consistent; varying levels of

application

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Challenges- People

  • Limitations in scientific and technical expertise in

the region

  • largely-foreign workforce both in the food industry

and the regulatory bodies

  • Cultural barrier
  • Language barrier
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Food Regulations - Dubai

Focus on implementation of Food Code

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Know what the requirement stands for - Understand its purpose

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PIC program

  • The most important

initiative during 2011 was developing the PIC program

  • Almost 20000 PICs have

completed training and have been certified in food safety

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Risk-Based Approach

  • Food safety outcomes are a combination of

the establishment’s ( PIC) ability to control the risk and the inherent risk of the product and the process.

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Food safety Publications

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