Surfeit of urban restaurants give rise to food safety, waste disposal challenges

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With the food and hospitality industry being one of the fastest growing sectors in urban Guyana, local institutions concerned with formulating and ensuring food safety and waste disposal regulations have “significantly added responsibilities”, which they must be equipped to execute efficiently, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling told Stabroek Business in a comment earlier this week.

“Frankly, it would be ill-advised to have a situation in which we allow an expansion of the sector without making allowances for the added waste disposal and safety and health implications of that expansion,” Urling told Stabroek Business.

The GCCI President who is also the owner of the