Food safety in pickles production and warning to unlicensed factories

The Minister of Industry, Hussein Haj Hassan, held an extensive meeting at the Ministry with owners of pickles factories and plastic barrel plants in the presence of General Director of the Lebanese Standards Institution, Libnor, Engineer Lina Dirgham, as well as representatives of the Ministries of Industry, Agriculture and Health. The meeting was devoted to the issue of food safety in the production of pickles especially in terms of the usage toxic packaging and resulted in several measurements and discussions. Following the meeting, Minister Haj Hassan said that the issue of pickles will be followed up by the three ministries through joint supervision of factories. Concerning the unlicensed factories, Haj Hassan gave the owners a one month ultimatum to file their registration papers at the Ministry of Industry. For his part, Minister of Faour indicated that inspection of 132 plants operating plants revealed that only 25 of them were legal.

(Refer to: List of decisions on food safety in the production of pickles)

(Al Diyar, An Nahar, 7 April 2015)