{"id":386,"date":"2018-10-04T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.informante.co.za\/?p=386"},"modified":"2019-01-22T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T05:26:30","slug":"food-outlet-monitoring-difficult-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"FOOD OUTLET MONITORING DIFFICULT &#8211; CoW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE City of Windhoek (CoW) has admitted that the ever-growing expansion of food outlets in Windhoek in<br \/>\nrecent years has made it difficult for the city to properly monitor the hygiene<br \/>\nof many restaurants, fast food outlets and hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Windhoek\u2019s head of Corporate Communications, Harold Akwenye was responding to public complaints of some food<br \/>\noutlets being in unhygienic conditions despite charging an arm and a leg on<br \/>\nfood prices.<\/p>\n<p>Akwenye said that since March 2018, City of Windhoek statistical data shows that there has been a total of<br \/>\n1303 registered formal food outlets in Windhoek, although the number changes<br \/>\ndaily as new businesses are registered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis increasing number of food outlets results in routine monitoring extremely difficult,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>he said.<\/p>\n<p>Akwenye said that the city has employed 15 Environmental Health Practitioners, a clear indication of<br \/>\nunderstaffing on the inspection of food outlets.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the number includes restaurants, Take Aways, supermarkets, Hypermarkets, butcheries,<br \/>\nhotels, catering companies, general dealers and bed and breakfast facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Akwenye urges members of the public to report unhygienic conditions to the Health Services Division at CoW.<br \/>\nAccording to CoW, 12 food outlets were closed down and 4 were given bad rating in the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE City of Windhoek (CoW) has admitted that the ever-growing expansion of food outlets in Windhoek in recent years has made it difficult for the city to properly monitor the hygiene of many restaurants, fast food outlets and hotels. 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