Cheers! Dubai’s Population Can Pick Foodstuff Containing Alcohol
After a degree of prevarication, Dubai has decided that food containing alcohol may be served in restaurants on the condition it is segregated from other foodstuff and noticeably marked, Dubai newspaper The National reported Tuesday.
Dubai, which is a relatively free and liberal Emirate state announced Sunday it would enforce a 2003 law banning alcohol in foodstuff preparation, due to complaints from Muslim clients who were not warned that dishes in various restaurants included alcohol. But it now appears that Dubai has changed its mind, based on comments from Khaled Sharif al Awadhi, director of Dubai municipality’s food control department.
“We have found violations where hotels are not clearly stating alcohol content in their food,” it quoted him as saying. Awadhi also stated that alcohol should be handled like other “non-halal products” such as pork.
