To save enough money for their families, a Filipino and other foreign workers at convenience stores have chosen to eat expired food products from store shelves, a report of the news site Emirates 24/7 said.
The report said several convenience store sales and counter staff in Dubai "risk food poisoning and other health hazards as they opt to eat food products that have expired from their own store shelves,” Emirates 24|7 said.
The report said the factors that have led these workers to feed on expired food products include low wages, time of work shifts, and "easy access to the just-expired items."
A Filipino counter staff told Emirates 24/7 that he could not “afford to buy food in the store or at any adjacent fast food chain."
"I normally eat the expired food items like sandwiches, bread, donuts, which cannot be legally sold to the customers,” he said.
He claimed that he knew it was risky but that he had "no choice."
Out of his Dhm1200 salary, nearly half had to be be allocated for food, he explained.
He noted that he also has to spend for drinking water, ironing, and washing of clothes.
"If we start eating out there is nothing left for saving or to send to our families back home,” he said.
In the same report, an Indian convenient store employee claimed that he can save as much Dh300 a month by eating expired foods.
“If I can save Dhm10 per day by taking the free expired food, I can save Dh 300 per month. We can save some money by eating the expired food, normally abandoned by supplier company,” he told Emirates 24/7.
Early last year, a food company in Dubai was closed after the court convicted five of its officials and employees for allegedly selling expired food items unfit for human consumption, the news site The National reported.
The employees were sentenced to four months in prison while the company was ordered shut down for a month.
According to the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, some 636,154 Filipinos were residing in UAE as of 2010.
Source: GMA News
The report said several convenience store sales and counter staff in Dubai "risk food poisoning and other health hazards as they opt to eat food products that have expired from their own store shelves,” Emirates 24|7 said.
The report said the factors that have led these workers to feed on expired food products include low wages, time of work shifts, and "easy access to the just-expired items."
A Filipino counter staff told Emirates 24/7 that he could not “afford to buy food in the store or at any adjacent fast food chain."
"I normally eat the expired food items like sandwiches, bread, donuts, which cannot be legally sold to the customers,” he said.
He claimed that he knew it was risky but that he had "no choice."
Out of his Dhm1200 salary, nearly half had to be be allocated for food, he explained.
He noted that he also has to spend for drinking water, ironing, and washing of clothes.
"If we start eating out there is nothing left for saving or to send to our families back home,” he said.
In the same report, an Indian convenient store employee claimed that he can save as much Dh300 a month by eating expired foods.
“If I can save Dhm10 per day by taking the free expired food, I can save Dh 300 per month. We can save some money by eating the expired food, normally abandoned by supplier company,” he told Emirates 24/7.
Early last year, a food company in Dubai was closed after the court convicted five of its officials and employees for allegedly selling expired food items unfit for human consumption, the news site The National reported.
The employees were sentenced to four months in prison while the company was ordered shut down for a month.
According to the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, some 636,154 Filipinos were residing in UAE as of 2010.
Source: GMA News
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