Doha: The Ministry of Public Health recently organized several workshops on the electronic registration system, which is one of the requirements of the first stage of the new electronic food safety system, which will be launched soon. The workshops aimed at familiarizing attendees and explaining registration steps.
This workshop represents a practical application of the MoPH efforts to streamline registration process in the electronic management system, which will accordingly reflect on improving the compliance of establishments and products with health requirements and specifications. The last workshop, which was attended by around 360 representatives of food establishments for four consecutive days, presented an integrated explanation of the electronic registration system, which has 4 stages.
The first stage is registration of food establishments and includes opening an account on the system and signing up and information about the food establishment; location, license, owner and person in-charge and substitute person. The second stage is “operating information” such basic data, working hours, production volume, vehicles used for food transport, supplier, product documents, and documents required for risk and critical point analysis.
The third stage of registration is “food handlers” and includes basic information and documents. The fourth stage is “products/request to register a food product” which includes basic information, product details, packaging, transportation, ingredients, nutrition facts label and attachments. Wassan Abdullah Al Baker, Director of the Food Safety and Environmental Health Department, at the Ministry said, that the Food Safety Department seeks to activate the digitization plan for registration of food establishments and products through a new electronic platform.
