The Directorate of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection in Tartus province has called on restaurant owners to comply with the prevailing regulatory, health, and supply instructions, ensuring food safety and consumer protection while limiting supply violations.
The Directorate emphasized, in awareness guidelines published via its Facebook page on Saturday, that restaurant owners must obtain the necessary licenses before practicing their profession and adhere to public health conditions and prevailing ministerial decisions.
The guidelines stressed the importance of verifying the validity of food materials and not possessing spoiled, expired, or unidentified source materials, refraining from possessing meat slaughtered outside approved abattoirs or bearing tampered stamps, in addition to not grinding or cutting more than 10 kilograms of meat in advance.
The Directorate also emphasized the necessity of displaying food safely, ensuring that preparation areas are free from insect infestations, and not using oils unfit for human consumption.
Regarding consumer protection, the Directorate called for clear price advertising and not collecting amounts exceeding advertised prices or engaging in any form of deception, emphasizing the necessity of adhering to the invoicing system and keeping official issued and received invoices, and not dealing with invoices contrary to regulations.
The Directorate of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection in Tartus had seized, on the 11th of the current month, a quantity of red meat unfit for human consumption in one of the meat shops in the city of Tartus, which was destroyed according to legal procedures, and a judicial record was organized against the violating shop owner.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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