MUSCAT — National Hospitality Institute’s (NHI) Food Safety Academy, Johnson Diversey and TempTrak held a food safety symposium at the Grand Hyatt Muscat recently. This initiative was taken to drive awareness of food safety products, training and monitoring systems available to Oman. Johnson Diversey is a leading global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene products and solutions for food safety and food and beverage hygiene.

Additionally, they offer a wide range of value-added services, including safety and application training in association with NHI in Oman, consulting, and hygiene auditing.

Yaser Nazir, Senior Consultant at Johnson Diversey Gulf FZE, gave information about ‘Food safety management systems’ and the ‘Global state of affairs and harmonisation developments at the symposium’. TempTrak specialises in food safety monitoring and data collection systems.

Mirco Beutler, Managing Director of TempTrak, delivered an expert presentation on Interfacing Wireless Temperature HACCP Monitoring Systems with PDA Critical Data Collection for Hotels and the Food and Beverage Industry. NHI is a training institute based in Oman and has been offering training solutions for the hospitality, catering, travel, tourism and leisure industries for the past 14 years.

Having been instrumental in the drive to improve food safety levels in industry by providing internationally accredited food safety training courses, NHI co-hosted this symposium. Tracey Brooker, Team Leader of the Food Safety Academy at NHI, provided valuable information on Food Management Systems and the contemporary challenge in Oman and the role of NHI.

“Our aim at NHI is to facilitate internationally accredited training to improve food safety management systems, ensuring confidence in the delivery of safe food to customers and to provide awareness of food safety and hygiene in our community. “The symposium today has been instrumental in providing a platform for knowledge-exchange and to communicate our commitment to the industry with regards to food safety and training. The awareness of food safety and systems will continue to grow in Oman and we will continue to support the food industry professionals in all areas of people development,” said Tracey Brooker, Team Leader, Food Safety Academy NHI.

By Staff Reporter
(C) Oman Daily Observer 2009