Food Safety: Code of Practice for Food Services

Food Service Establishment Guidelines

1 - Purpose

The Food Safety and Environmental Health Department (FSEH) at the Ministry of Public Health of Qatar (MoPH) has prepared this document to help food services to comply with Qatari laws and regulations to ensure the people of Qatar are provided with safe products.

This Code of Practice explains how to meet the mandatory legislative requirements. In addition, the document details the food safety hygiene measures based on a HACCP approach that will be looked at and assessed by the FSEH inspectors during their official control activities and provides suggested control measures to the food service establishment to demonstrate compliance.

The Code of Practice is available at MoPH website www.moph.gov.qa.