444 expired hair products seized in Abu Dhabi

The Public Health Division, Abu Dhabi City Municipality, has carried out intensive evening inspection campaigns during the month of Ramadan and Eid period targeting beauty centers and salons as well as Ramadan and Eid Exhibition held at the Exhibition Yard under the theme (Your Beauty & Health Make Joyful Eid).

The campaign was prompted by the huge turnout and rising number of visitors of beauty centers and salons during this period, particularly ladies and children, who were keen to have decorative Henna designs among other familiar preparations made on the eve of the Eid.

The campaign was also contemplated in the aftermath of trendy and newly introduced practices and services involving the use of Henna; the properties and chemical composition of which have been manipulated in keeping with the trend to use of the harmful black Henna.

Khalifa Mohammed Al Rumaithi, Director of Public Health, Abu Dhabi City Municipality, said: "The Municipality is keen on intensifying such campaigns to safeguard the health of individuals and minimise the potential rise in the number of offences reported against the personnel running those facilities during this period. “The campaign, which lasted four days, continued for three days at beauty salons, and one day at the Exhibition Centre during Ramadan.''

"The objective of the campaign was to verify the implementation of all health stipulations and general cleanliness besides following up warnings to ensure that beauty centers and salons which had been served with previous warnings have made corrective actions as appropriate.

"The campaign resulted in seizing medical equipment used in providing unlicensed treatment services, and might pose a risk to service recipients, and the seizure of 444 expired hair-dying treatments," revealed Al Rumaithi.

The inspection teams also succeeded in seizing prohibited materials the use of which is banned in the UAE.

"The campaign covered 144 beauty centres and salons and resulted in reporting 5 offences and serving 2 warnings only; which is a testament to the success of the educative and awareness-raising campaigns launched by the Municipality targeting female staffs of these centers, and the rising response towards addressing the requisites of public health as well as the conditions & standards for practicing these professions," concluded Director of Public Health, Abu Dhabi City Municipality.

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