DUBAI — The team of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), affiliated to the Ministry of Environment and Water, in cooperation with the Department of Food Control affiliated to Dubai Municipality, organised a training course about caviar and its products.
A number of technicians of the Ministry of Environment and Water and officers of Food Control Department of Dubai Municipality participated in the course. During the training course, the ministry's expert highlighted the CITES regulations for trading in caviar in the country and globally.
Engineer Muna Omran Al Shamsi, head of CITES at the Ministry of Environment and Water, underlined the significance of running such kind of training courses which will help develop and raise the efficiency of work of officials dealing in this product governed by CITES rules internationally. CITES is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.