The Environmental Health Department carried out a wide inspection campaign throughout the Mansoura District, which it began during the month of Ramadan, targeting expired food supplies and stores serving ready-made food.

This campaign resulted in the seizure, withdrawal, and destruction of four tons and five hundred kilograms of various expired foodstuffs.

The Environmental Health Department took measures in accordance with the terrifying law  by destroying expired materials in the waste dump in Bir Al-Naama, Al-Buraiqa District.

In a statement by Hassan Abdel Aziz Al-Subaihi, head of the Environmental Health Department   to the newspaper, he said, under the guidance of Mr. Ahmed Ali Al-Daoudi, Director General of the Directorate, and under the supervision of Engineer Raafat Kokni, Director of the Public Works and Roads Office, the Environmental Health Department in the Mansoura Directorate has been implementing for months an extensive inspection campaign through which food supplies were withdrawn. Expired items and other materials for more than 4.5 tons of various foodstuffs have been completed, records have been prepared, and they have been destroyed in accordance with established procedures.

Mahmoud Al-Maflahi, Deputy Head of the Environmental Health Department, said that many damaged items, including expired food, diapers, and drinks, were withdrawn, seized, and destroyed during the implementation of the inspection campaign.

Al-Muflhi added that the materials included various expired food items that were stored in warehouses. Also, 54 violations were prepared regarding expired materials and 27 violations regarding the health status of a number of restaurants that violated health conditions and standards. Also, 3 stores were closed for violating environmental health regulations.

The Deputy Head of the Environmental Health Department confirmed the continuation of inspection campaigns in commercial stores in an effort to establish concepts that are in favor of consumer protection.

 Al-Muflhi said that the inspection campaign teams made surprise visits to water plants and food warehouses. There, we found violations of the storage of various foodstuffs, beverages, juices, and diapers for children whose expiration date had expired. We investigated them, wrote reports on them, issued violations, and then destroyed them in accordance with established procedures.

Brother Hassan Al-Subaihi, Head of the Environmental Health Department, indicated that there is a comprehensive plan for fogging spraying that is being implemented to combat mosquitoes, mainly targeting mosquito breeding spots throughout the Mansoura District. This campaign began months ago and is continuing to be completed in various areas of the District.

It is worth noting that the Environmental Health Department of the General Administration of Works, Mansoura Directorate, has been carrying out, over a period of months, successive inspection campaigns aimed at withdrawing and destroying expired food supplies and monitoring the performance of restaurants and the extent to which they apply health standards.

The Environmental Health Department has achieved many successes in arresting violators, reducing the display of expired materials for sale, issuing violations, destroying thousands of tons of expired food and other miscellaneous materials, and closing dozens of restaurants that violated health standards in the past months.

All of this comes under the strict guidance and direct supervision of Mr. Ahmed Ali Al-Daoudi, Director General of the Mansoura District, who paid attention to implementing qualitative inspection campaigns that mainly target consumer protection in the Mansoura District.