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2/19/24, 1:43 PM Dubai Municipality to review digital programmes at Gulfood – The Gulf Time Newspaper
educating food enterprises, traders, and suppliers about the most recent safety standards, food
specifications, and environmental sustainability, thereby ensuring their implementation.”

Dubai Food Systems Excellence Programme, the most recent initiative to recognise the best food
establishments in the application of integrated standards of food safety, nutrition, environmental
sustainability, community responsibility, digitisation, and innovation, will be reviewed by the Municipality

during Gulfood.
The programme’s objectives include consolidating Dubai’s position as a major hub for global trade,

encouraging food businesses to distinguish themselves, as well as upholding a sustainable system of food,
health, and environment to improve the quality of life.
Additionally, it targets food outlets in the emirate of Dubai that are classified as restaurants and snack

preparation facilities, including local restaurants and cafeterias in hotels and public places.
Dubai Municipality will further review its services for food merchants and suppliers, which offers them
access to IRS to streamline import and export procedures and track food products. In addition, the

Municipality will also promote practices that minimise food loss and waste in the emirate during its
participation at the event, in addition to increasing customer understanding of the regulations, processes,

and transactions associated with food shipments.
The customer’s journey with IRS entails several steps, including securing license, registering the company
on the Municipality’s website, evaluating food products, submitting import application on the import and

export system, requesting the arrival of the shipment at the port of entry, and transporting it to the port
control office for inspection and release.

Furthermore, it includes staff members’ receipt and inspection of the shipment, the release of the shipment
from the port, its arrival at the importer’s warehouse, the collection of samples, the laboratory inspection of
the product, and ultimately the product’s access to the local market.

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