The authorities in Oman has endorsed new specifications regulating the production bread as part of measures aimed at ensuring food safety.
Commerce and Industry Minister Dr. Ali bin Masoud al Sunaidi issued an edict approving the mandatory standard specifications for bread in Oman, reported Times of Oman.
The specifications also list the items required to make bread, including all food products prepared by mixing and kneading wheat flour, water, food salt and fermentation material, and one or more optional materials.
The bread must be left for fermentation, then cut according to the required weight, shaped and left for some time, then baked at an appropriate temperature of 205–235 degrees Celsius, in which the heat and humidity both are controlled.